"The first deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will assess the situation on the spot, it is planned that he will fly around the territories where there are large fires," the spokesman for the TASS quoted.
It is specified that Chupriyan had already held a meeting in the General Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region, where he was provided with operational information on the situation with wildfires.
Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Emergency Situations sent additional forces from Khakassia and the Kemerovo Region to the Krasnoyarsk Territory to help eliminate the consequences of forest fires.
According to the latest data, the area of wildfires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory exceeded 1 million hectares.