About this writes RIA Novosti with reference to the department. 

“According to the regional forestry dispatch services, over the past day, April 25, 159 forest fires on an area of ​​10,490 ha were eliminated in Russia,” the statement said.

It is specified that, according to data at midnight on April 26, 128 forest fires are operating on the territory of Russia on an area of ​​25,415 ha. They are actively extinguishing.

Earlier it was reported that more than 700 hectares of taiga burn in the Zasucheysky Bor reserve in the Trans-Baikal Territory.