TASS informs about this with reference to the press service of the Central Military District.

“An Il-76 aircraft has been allocated to extinguish fires in the Kuvandyk District of the Orenburg Region.

There will be two sorties today.

In total, 84 tons of water will be discharged near the village of Churaevo, ”the ministry said.

Earlier it was reported that the head of Sarov, Alexei Safonov, signed a decree on the introduction of an emergency regime in the city due to a forest fire that occurred in a nature reserve in Mordovia and spread to the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region.