Equipment from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has arrived in the Irkutsk region and is sent to the Kirensk region to fight forest fires , reports the press service of the regional government.
A column of equipment from the department will arrive in the Kirensk region, where there are five forest fires in the evening. In total, the War Department sent 19 pieces of equipment to put out the fires. In favorable weather conditions, they also plan to use the IL-76.
Previously, the Defense Ministry sent additional forces to put out the fires in Yakutia. Yakutia leader Aisen Nikolaev called global climate change the main cause of large-scale forest fires in the republic. According to him, every year the summer in the republic gets hotter and drier. & Nbsp;