“Over the past day, 95 forest fires on an area of 9,766 hectares have been extinguished in Russia,” RIA Novosti reports a message from Avialesookhrana.
It is noted that by midnight on April 21 in Russia there were 30 forest fires on an area of 1718 hectares.
Earlier, in the Trans-Baikal Territory, a high alert regime was introduced due to fires.