Russian Farmers Travel to Kremlin Over Mass Cattle Culling in Siberia Amid Disease Rumors

Angry farmers from Russia's Novosibirsk region in Siberia have traveled to Moscow to seek an audience with President Vladimir Putin over a massive cattle culling operation that has devastated their livestock herds. The farmers are left financially ruined as authorities have ordered the killing of thousands of cattle without clear explanation. Rumors are spreading among Russian farmers about an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, though authorities have not confirmed this. The head of the affected Novosibirsk region claims the culling is part of a campaign against pasteurellosis, a bacterial respiratory infection in cattle, though farmers dispute this explanation and question the necessity of such drastic measures that have destroyed their livelihoods.