Vladimir Putin after the report of the head of the Ministry of emergency situations Evgeny Senichev ordered the defense Ministry to help with extinguishing the fire, said the press service of the Kremlin. in addition, the grouping of military power in the Irkutsk region will remain until further orders of the head of the country. About a week ago, Siberia and other regions of Russia was enveloped in a haze with the smell of burning. The East wind spread the smoke to the site of Khakassia, Altai territory, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk oblasts and from the Evenk district of Krasnoyarsk region. As said 1st Deputy head of the Ministry of emergency situations Alexander Chupriyan, the fires have covered nearly 3 million hectares of forest. A state of emergency imposed in the Irkutsk region and Krasnoyarsk region, 2 districts of Buryatia and five districts of Yakutia. analysis Minister of natural resources Dmitry Kobylkin, the cause of the fire could be dry thunderstorms. In fire fighting involved almost 3 thousand people and more than 350 pieces of different mechanisms and 28 aircraft. yesterday, Prime Minister Medvedev D. A. ordered the governors to take the circumstances of the fires under his personal supervision. <span style="color:darkgray