“On July 30, the plane made 15 sorties with water discharge. Yesterday and today was being repaired. Tomorrow, he will start work on fighting fires again, ”RIA Novosti reports.
On July 31, Putin ordered the Ministry of Defense to help extinguish fires in Siberia and the Far East.
Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov, in an interview with the ANF, noted that the scale of fires in the Far Eastern Siberian zone exceeded the capabilities of the Emergencies Ministry, so the Defense Ministry forces were involved.