“According to the information of the regional forestry dispatch services, over the past day on May 22, 2020, 38 forest fires were eliminated in Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes the message of the Forest Protection Agency.

It is noted that the largest number of fires that extinguish, recorded in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

Earlier, the Federal Aviation Protection Agency reported a large-scale forest fire in the Krasnoselkup district of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.