About 600 violators of fire safety rules were detained in the Vitebsk region during the period of the ban on visiting forests. This was announced at a press conference at the Vitebsk Regional Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations by the Deputy Head of the Department of Supervision and Prevention, Alexander Sychev.

In the Vitebsk region, officials will be brought to administrative responsibility for dishonest work with citizens' appeals. This was announced by the chairman of the regional executive committee, Nikolai Sherstnev, summing up the results of a direct telephone line with the region's population.