“According to the regional forestry dispatch services, 55 forest fires on an area of 2,753 hectares have been extinguished in Russia over the past day,” RIA Novosti reports.
It is specified that there are 100 forest fires on the territory of the country on an area of 33,126 hectares.
Earlier, the head of the Meteo prognostic center, Alexander Shuvalov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the abnormal heat in European countries.