He said that "now all forest fires are practically extinguished."
“If on August 15 the area covered by the then active fires was 4 million hectares, now it is already a little more than 100 thousand hectares in remote areas.
We are confident that these fires will be extinguished in the near future, "Nikolaev is quoted by TASS.
Earlier it was reported that Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko held a meeting on the implementation of the President's instructions to improve the efficiency of forest conservation.