“The approximate figure as of today is 7 (billion rubles. - RT ),” RIA Novosti quoted Klinov as saying.
According to him, a more accurate figure can be called after an examination of places covered by fires.
Klimov also announced the stabilization of the situation with forest fires throughout Russia.
Earlier, an expert of the Permanent Commission on Environmental Issues of the Presidential Human Rights Council Grigory Kuksin, head of the Greenpeace Russia fire prevention program, commented on the situation with forest fires in the country in an interview with NSN.