Since the beginning of the year, 38 thousand fires have occurred in Ukraine on the area of almost 43 thousand hectares - SES

The situation with fires in ecosystems in Ukraine remains critical due to a long period of dry weather. This was stated by the press officer of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Khorunzhyi during a briefing, according to a correspondent of UNN.

We have a very difficult situation with fires in ecosystems in open areas, which is facilitated by a rather long period of dry weather. Since the beginning of the year, we have had 38,000 fires on a total area of almost 43,000 hectares

According to him, this is twice as much as last year.

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