In the Orenburg region, normalization of the flood situation is expected no earlier than April 25. Deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Viktor Yatsutsenko said that the number of houses flooded by spring floods in Russia will increase.
More than 2 thousand household plots and over 1.5 thousand households are currently flooded in Orenberg. It is clarified that everywhere there is a dynamic increase in water levels at most gauging stations on the Ural, Sakmara, and Ilek rivers.