“According to the results of the use of the Defense Ministry aviation group in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the morning of August 6, all the hot spots in the areas designated for extinguishing military aircraft have been eliminated,” RIA Novosti quoted the agency as saying.
Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that careless handling of fire was a possible cause of natural fires in Siberia.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the authorities of the Irkutsk region and other regions that suffer from forest fires distorted statistics on the time of their elimination.