“Over the past day ... 26 forest fires on an area of 214 hectares have been extinguished in Russia,” RIA Novosti reports.
It is specified that there are 114 forest fires in the country on an area of 29,284 hectares.
Earlier, URA.RU, citing the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, reported an increase in the class of natural fire hazard in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.