"The total area of ​​fires in the Kartala and Nagaybak municipal districts was 14,000 hectares," TASS reports.

Earlier, the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Alexei Teksler, told Russian President Vladimir Putin by telephone about the situation around wildfires in the region.

As previously reported by URA.RU, Texler announced an emergency regime in the region in connection with large wildfires.