“Everyone is working very hard. And all work with the highest possible efficiency. You should never forget about the geography of our country, about its size. One should never forget about various climatic phenomena ... And one should not forget about, unfortunately, the factor of arson, deliberate arson, which still exists, ”Peskov said.
Peskov noted that forests in Russia burn every year, but at the same time, people work to extinguish fires up to a sweat.
“This is a very complicated process. And, unfortunately, here nature is often stronger than people with all their potential and with all their determination to work up to this seventh sweat, ”concluded Peskov.
Earlier, the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia warned of a high fire hazard in some regions of Siberia and the Far East in the coming days.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the allocation of about 6 billion rubles from the reserve fund for extinguishing fires in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Region to Rosleskhoz, the Ministry of Emergencies and the Ministry of Defense.
Grigory Kuksin, expert of the standing commission on environmental issues of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, head of the Greenpeace Russia fire prevention program, commented on the situation with forest fires in the country in an interview with NSN.