The Ministry of Defense told about extinguishing fires near Irkutsk and in the Mordovian nature reserve

TASS informs about it.

“In total, to extinguish wildfires in these regions, 36 flights of Il-76 aircraft were performed and more than 1.5 thousand tons of water were dropped,” the department said.

Earlier, the Unified Duty Dispatch Service of the Temnikovsky District of Mordovia reported that the area of ​​active combustion in the Mordovian nature reserve has increased to 90 hectares.