He stated this at a press conference.
“Traditionally, fires are recorded throughout the Russian Federation.
Today, at the beginning of June, we are considering the most problematic region - the Republic (Sakha) of Yakutia.
The region is warming up, we are recording the largest area of forest fires, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to his head of department, the regions of the Far East and Siberia are also causing concern.
“First of all, the Novosibirsk and Irkutsk regions, the Altai Territory, the Republic of Tuva, the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory, Kamchatka,” Sovetnikov noted.
The head of Rosleskhoz also said that Roshydromet predicts high temperatures and high fire hazard classes in the summer of 2022 in the North-West Federal District - this is the Republic of Karelia and the Arkhangelsk Region, in the Central Federal District - Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, Orel Regions, in the Ural Federal District - Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
On June 1, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry announced that 29 forest fires continue to operate in the country on a total area of more than 23 thousand hectares.
On June 2, URA.RU reported that a special fire regime was canceled in the Sverdlovsk region.