“Over the past day, 6 forest fires occurred on a total area of 25.2 hectares.
5 hotbeds of forest fires were liquidated on a total area of 58.6 hectares, ”the agency's website says.
It notes that "9 forest fires continue to operate on a total area of 2673.5 hectares."
On August 26, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, said that the situation with forest fires on the border of Mordovia and the Nizhny Novgorod region was not easy, but was taken under control.