Putin Receives Round-the-Clock Military Updates: Russian Presidential Spokesman

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin receives reports from the military several times a day, both during the day and night.

"Several times a day or as necessary, day or night, the president receives reports from the military. It is his role as Supreme Commander-in-Chief," Peskov said in an interview for the program 'Moscow. Kremlin. Putin', according to the state-owned TASS news agency.

Peskov said that Putin is keeping social issues-which, especially in some places, "are not easy"-under personal control. Such issues he addresses day to day and sometimes hour to hour with regional leaders and department heads.

"In places of an acute situation, the president keeps all questions of social security under his personal control. These are daily or hourly contacts with regional leaders, with the heads of social departments, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, law enforcement agencies, and construction workers," Peskov explained.

He underlined that among the president's main priorities is "care for people - how the work of temporary accommodation centres is organized, where exactly people have arrived, where they are being housed, where children will go to study…"

As Peskov explained, such an intense volume of work, together with the constant receipt of military reports, "goes on throughout the day, and it all happens day in and day out.".

"And besides that, there is also work with documents. We are talking about substantive documents-which need to be thoughtfully read before signing," he said.

These documents involve decrees and lists of instructions from the head of State.

"If you imagine the whole volume, then sometimes even a day is not enough. And, further, there are regional trips and all the rest," Peskov added.

This also included the heads of three regions, acting governors of Khabarovsk Krai, Vologda, and Samara Oblasts, who reported to Putin last Friday.