Siberian Wildfires Burn 3 Mln Hectares of Forest Since January – State Watchdog

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
concentrated in the Far East Khabarovsk region, with 2.14% of the entire region affected
The second most-affected region is the west Siberian Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district, which has seen about 1% of its entire territory
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