“As of today, as I said, the situation is broken.
These days, six fires are being extinguished in the Vilyui, Suntarsky, Churapchinsky and Ust-Maisky districts, ”Nikolayev said.
According to him, "there is no threat to any settlement on the territory of the republic."
“In the coming days, the emergency situation in Yakutia will be lifted,” the head of the region added.
Earlier, the head of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) Ivan Sovetnikov said that the area of forests burned this year exceeded 8 million hectares.