In the Nikolaev region on Monday, August 21, a fire broke out in the Andreevsky forest tract.
The burning area was 20 hectares, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Facebook.
It is noted that the fire covered a large area of the forest and spread to forest plantations.
The report stressed that the fire was eliminated by foresters, 85 firefighters and 14 pieces of equipment. Monitoring of the situation is carried out with the help of quadrocopters with the involvement of an ATV.
It is noted that this is the second fire in the last two days. So on Sunday, August 20, at 21:10 eliminated the fire on the territory of the Andreevsky forestry. 21 pieces of equipment and 122 people were involved in its extinguishing. In particular, 15 pieces of equipment and 91 rescuers of the State Emergency Service, 11 foresters and 20 local residents.
As a reminder, in Mykolaiv region, repeated shelling by Russian troops of the Mykolaiv Forestry State Enterprise caused large-scale fires that caused environmental damage worth more than UAH 111 million as of August 2022.
As EcoPolitics previously reported, a large-scale forest fire broke out on the island of Rhodes in Greece, destroying the island for about a week and forcing thousands of tourists and local residents to evacuate.
