"According to the regional forestry dispatch services, over the past day on June 30, 80 forest fires on an area of 11,350 hectares have been eliminated in Russia," RIA Novosti quoted a statement.
It is specified that by 00:00 on July 1, 287 forest fires were operating in Russia on an area of more than 203 thousand hectares, which were actively extinguished.
The day before it was reported that the area of forest fires in Russia reached 165 thousand hectares.