And the Russian Federation is facing dozens of fires across the territory, which exceeds 217 according to the Federal Forest Service.
Most of them have occurred in the eastern part of the country, where 5 thousand firefighters, volunteers and civilians as well as hundreds of vehicles are trying to put out the fires.
According to a statement from the Federal Forest Service of the Russian Federation: “As of August 1, forest fires have occurred in 217 places. 115 in Yakutia – in the Far East – and 51 in the areas of the city of Irkutsk, near Lake Baikal “.
In the fires that started in the Siberian region in July, about 1.3 million hectares of forest have been reduced to ashes so far and the authorities have declared a state of emergency in the region.
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The smoke from the flames spreads over huge areas of Siberia, experts from the Russian Greenpeace reported.
