Russian Emergency Situations Ministry (MES) Head Alexander Kurenkov said in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the fire situation is expected to worsen in 22 regions of Russia. Far East, Siberia, the Urals and the Volga region. It has been reported TASS.
He noted that in the Far East we are talking about the southwestern part of Yakutia, the Primorsky Territory, the Amur Region and the Jewish Autonomous Region. In Siberia, the situation is expected to worsen in the Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories, and in the Novosibirsk and Omsk Territories. In the Urals – in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, in the Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions.
Also, according to him, the fire situation will worsen in Tatarstan and Bashkiria, the Perm Territory, Samara and Orenburg regions, Kalmykia, Astrakhan and Volgograd regions.
April 19 Head of the Ministry of Emergencies Alexander Kurenkov declarationSevere flooding is expected in Siberia and the Northwest Federal Territories. It has been recorded that 390 residences and 39 country houses, more than 9 thousand household plots and 490 transportation infrastructure facilities have been flooded throughout the country since 2023, when the flood began.