[Russia] - Raging Wildfires Devastate Russia's Far East Sakha Republic

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
saw 4.6 million hectares and 3.5 million hectares of forest destroyed respectively, according to the environmental news outlet Kedr
recent years as climate change has exacerbated the hot, dry conditions in which these fires thrive.When speaking with The Moscow Times in
statistics already released by the Russian government does not necessarily reflect the actual scale of fire-inflicted devastation as it
forest fires have disproportionately affected isolated rural areas that have neither reliable transportation links with the capital Yakutsk
she has little hope that local authorities led by Nikolayev will step up their efforts in fighting the fires unless faced with the
in smoke
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