“Over the past day, 55 forest fires on an area of ​​2,302 hectares have been extinguished in Russia,” RIA Novosti reports.

It is specified that there are 126 forest fires on the territory of the country on an area of ​​143,545 hectares.

As the RIA56 portal previously reported, 29 forest fires have been recorded in the Orenburg region since the beginning of 2022.