“According to the instructions of the Minister of Defense of Russia, Army General Shoigu, an operational headquarters was created at the National Center for Defense Management of Russia to coordinate the activities of the forces and means involved in helping to extinguish forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory,” the RT Defense Ministry’s press release said.
It clarifies that an operative group of the Ministry of Defense headed by the deputy head of the department, Army General Dmitry Bulgakov, flies to Krasnoyarsk.
July 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Defense to help extinguish fires in Siberia and the Far East. The Ministry of Defense reported that it was sending an air group to the Krasnoyarsk Territory to put out forest fires.