“Over the past day in the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Irkutsk region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 48 centers of natural fires were extinguished on an area of ​​53 thousand 473 ha. In total, 202 outbreaks on an area of ​​98 thousand 417 hectares were extinguished in the territory of Russia per day, ”the Ministry of Emergencies reports to TASS.

Earlier, Acting Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Mikhail Klinov announced the stabilization of the situation with forest fires in Siberia.

On August 8, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to allocate about 6 billion rubles to extinguish forest fires in a number of regions.

On August 1, the Ministry for Emergencies called the cause of the spread of fires in Siberia.