Volunteer: the thermal imager pointed to the glowing dots in the taiga where the Usoltsevs disappeared

Volunteer Svetlana Torgashina reported on February 19 that drones with a thermal imager were detecting glowing dots in the taiga of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where the Usoltsev family disappeared.

"It was necessary for them to give at least some kind of signal. The audibility is very good there, if there was a signal, we would definitely have heard it," the portal quotes. NSG24.ru . the words of a huckster.

According to the newspaper, in the early days of the search, drones were launched, which indicated movement in the forest. The volunteers also used drones with voice messages, hoping to get some kind of signal from the missing.

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Rescuers have been conducting repeated searches for the Usoltsevs in the village of Kuturchin since January 30. Earlier, on January 19, Serafima Choodu, a representative of the press service of the LizaAlert regional detachment, said that volunteers would return to the large-scale search for the Usoltsevs in the taiga of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the spring.

On October 22, 2025, investigators called the accident the main version of the disappearance of the Usoltsev family. Yulia Arbuzova, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia, said on October 30 that no records or suspicious items of the Usoltsev family had been found.

The loss of the Usoltsev family in the Minsk Loop area became known on September 28, 2025, when they were heading to Mount Pinocchio. Over 515 km of forest roads and 40 square kilometers of woodlands were explored in the search. The active phase of the search was completed on October 12, but the work continued in the format of point tasks, which were entrusted to certified rescuers.

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