“At 00:00 Moscow time on August 25, 109 forest fires were operating on the territory of Russia on an area of 50,140 hectares, which were actively extinguished,” RIA Novosti quotes the message of the Federal Aviation Protection Agency.
A day earlier, the agency reported 122 forest fires on an area of 42 thousand 400 hectares.
Earlier, the government of Yakutia reported the elimination of 18 foci of forest fires per day.