This was reported by the Kremlin press service.

"Zinichev reported to the President on the work done in Lebanon to eliminate the consequences of a powerful explosion ... on the completion of the work of the EMERCOM group in Lebanon and on its phased withdrawal," the statement said.

The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations also spoke about the results of the search and rescue operation in Beirut and about the work on counteracting coronavirus infection by Rospotrebnadzor specialists who were part of the group.

In total, during their work at the site of the explosion in Beirut, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations removed the bodies of ten dead from under the rubble.

Lebanese authorities have officially announced that they do not expect to find survivors under the rubble in Beirut.

On August 4, a powerful explosion occurred in the port area in the capital of Lebanon. More than 150 people died, about 5 thousand were injured.

Alexey Dudarev, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Union of Rescuers, in an interview with Nation News, noted that a lot of work remains to be done to find victims.