A total of 66 wildfires covering an area of 14,888 hectares have been put out in the past 24 hours across Russia, the press service of the Federal Aerial Forest Fire Service reports on Sunday. The hardest hit by wildfires are the Krasnoyarsk Region and Yakutia, where 39,600 and 21,000 hectares of woodland accordingly are engulfed in flames. About 3,200 hectares are hit by wildfires in the Magadan region, and more than 2,300 - in the Irkutsk region. Modest wildfires are reported as of Sunday morning from the Murmansk Region, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region, Karelia, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, in the Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Volgograd regions, as well as in the Komi Republic. Almost 24,300 hectares of woodland are burning in the Tungussky Natural Park in the Krasnoyarsk Region.

A day earlier, 94 wildfires covering an area of 94,300 hectares were reported from Russian regions. Another 215 wildfires were registered in hard-of-access and remote areas. The strongest wildfires were reported from Yakutia, the Krasnoyarsk, Region, as well as the Magadan and Irkutsk regions. These fires are not put out as the firefighting expenses exceed the forecasted damage, according to the Federal Aerial Forest Fire Service.
Almost 2,300 people are putting out wildfires, assisted by 195 units of hardware. One hundred aircraft are monitoring wildfires or putting them out.