“All forest fires in the region have now been eliminated,” the Information Center of the Government of the Tyumen Region quotes him as saying.

As specified, ground patrols of forest areas and adjacent territories are systematically carried out, including with the use of drones.

On the morning of May 18, there are no active forest fires, there is only one landscape fire, the center said.

The Governor of the Sakhalin Region, Valery Limarenko, earlier instructed to transfer fire units in the region to a high alert mode.