“As for the situation in Siberia, on the lands of the forest fund in the morning there are 248 outbreaks of forest fires, an area of more than 1.5 million hectares,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier in Buryatia, a group of 1,000 military men was created to extinguish fires.
On August 1, the Ministry for Emergencies called the cause of the spread of fires in Siberia.
The Chairman of the State Duma’s Defense Committee, Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov, in an interview with the FAN, noted that the scale of the fires in the Far Eastern Siberian zone exceeded the capabilities of the Ministry of Emergencies, and therefore the Defense Ministry was attracted.