“Over the past day on August 19, 2022, 60 forest fires were extinguished in Russia on an area of 656 hectares,” RIA Novosti reports.
It is specified that there are 54 forest fires on the territory of the country on an area of 75,119 hectares.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, Alexander Kurenkov, said that all forest fires in the Khabarovsk Territory had been extinguished.