“From August 9 to 15, 2021, forest fire services and involved persons liquidated 382 forest fires in 39 regions of Russia on an area covered by fire of more than 493 thousand hectares,” the Avialesoohrana website says.
It is noted that the maximum share of the area of forest fires falls on Yakutia.
Earlier it became known that Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced the unprecedented scale of natural disasters in Russia.