"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.