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Wildfires burns over 3.2 million hectares of forest in Russia’s Siberia: Reports

WorldRussiaWildfires burns over 3.2 million hectares of forest in Russia's Siberia: Reports

Wildfires have burned over 3.2 million hectares of forest in Russia’s Siberian and Far East regions since the beginning of the year, as per statistics published by Russia’s Aerial Forest Protection Service on Monday.

Around one-half of all the blazes were concentrated in the Far East Khabarovsk region, with 2.14% of the whole region affected. The second most-affected region is the west Siberian Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district, which has seen around 1% of its entire territory covered in fires.

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Russian authorities have announced state of emergency in seven regions, including across the entire territory of the Far East republic of Sakha, where residential areas have been affected by fire-induced toxic smog.

Greenpeace Russia last week published aerial footage of a forest fire in the Irkutsk region covering more than 40,000 hectares. The fire, according to the environmental watchdog, has not been mentioned in any records maintained by the Aerial Forest Protection Service.

Greenpeace wrote in the accompanying commentary, “This is a vivid example of how officials reports on existing fires and their extinguishing do not fully reflect the actual situation.”

Last year, wildfires in Russia’s northeastern regions covered an area of at least 18.8 million hectares and were deemed “record-breaking” by Greenpeace. The watchdog has repeatedly called on the Russian government to step up measures on combating the fires to avoid a repeat of last year’s “catastrophic” scenario.

 

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