“Currently, there are two fire sites on the territory of the Mordovian State Natural Reserve in close proximity to the Pervomaisky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the closed city of Sarov.
All the efforts of the subdivisions involved are focused on the localization and subsequent elimination of the hotbeds of fire, ”TASS reports the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
On Saturday, August 28, Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Nikolai Grechushkin arrived in the region to control the extinguishing of forest fires.
On August 20, Rosatom called the situation in Sarov controlled, next to which the reserve is on fire.
On August 26, the Ministry of Emergency Situations denied information about a fire near the checkpoint in Sarov.