“Since the forces of one Mi-8 helicopter, which the Russian Emergencies Ministry sent us to help on Friday, turned out to be insufficient to extinguish the fires, we asked for additional help from our Russian colleagues. Today, the Be-200 aircraft began to extinguish the fire, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
Kvitsinia specified that at the moment in the territory of Abkhazia natural fires occupy an area of about 30 thousand hectares.
“It will take at least two more days to eliminate fires. I think we can handle it, ”he concluded.
Earlier it was reported about the arrival in Abkhazia of a Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian Emergencies Ministry to extinguish a fire at the Sukhumi pass.