SIBERIAN WILDFIRES BURN OVER 1.5 MILLION HECTARES OF FOREST AS SMOKE AND HEATWAVE CHOKE ‘WORLD’S COLDEST CITY’

31/07/2021

Aslıhan DOĞRU -TDO- About 1.5 million hectares have been destroyed in forest fires in the Siberian region of Russia, which have been raging for about a month.

Severe forest fires in Yakutia, Russia's coldest region, for three years in a row have been caused by hot weather.

Due to heavy smoke, the airport in Yakutsk, the regional capital of 280,000 people, was temporarily closed.

Russia's Emergencies Ministry declared a regional emergency.