“According to the information of the regional forestry dispatch services, 23 forest fires on an area of 2,793 hectares have been eliminated in Russia,” RIA Novosti reports.
It is specified that there are 127 forest fires in the country on an area of 33,826 hectares.
Earlier, the head of the Meteo prognostic center, Alexander Shuvalov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the abnormal heat in European countries.