“At 00:00 Moscow time on September 6, 19 forest fires were operating on the territory of the Russian Federation on an area of 1,306 hectares, which were actively suppressed,” the agency said.
It is noted that in the Krasnoyarsk Territory nine fires are recorded with an area of 818 ha.
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.