Sanitary checkpoints have appeared in several villages of the Golyshmanovsky district in the Tyumen region — Golyshmanovo, Abatskoye, Omutinskoye and others — where workers in white protective suits are disinfecting vehicles and police are enforcing a ban on transporting pork out of the area.
The first cases were detected in the village of Skarednaya in early August. Veterinarians told residents there is no vaccine or treatment for the infection, so the entire livestock must be destroyed. Neither the local administration nor the regional veterinary department has disclosed the name of the disease, saying the information is "restricted from distribution." The outlet 72.ru speculates it could be African swine fever, but there is no official confirmation.
Farmers are promised compensation, but exact amounts have not been announced. According to local residents, the figure is 90–95 rubles per kilogram. Those who refuse to surrender their livestock face fines of 30,000–35,000 rubles.
For many of the district's 23,000 residents, farming is the primary source of income. "They took 22 pigs from me. They gave them injections, loaded them up and drove them away. I live off these pigs, and now they're gone. The authorities won't say exactly how much they'll pay for them," said farmer Vladimir Buzin. Others complain the compensation does not cover feed, vitamins and medicine costs, and some families had planned to sell the meat to prepare their children for school.
A similar situation is unfolding in the Kupinsky district of the Novosibirsk region. A deputy head of the district administration demanded farmers get rid of all their pigs within two to three days, despite no confirmed cases in the area. Farmers were ordered to cull the animals at their own expense, with the threat of forced seizure. In a video from a meeting, one farmer told officials: "If you come to kill my pigs, I will treat you like a Ukrainian sabotage group."