MOSCOW, Aug 14 — Russian President Vladimir Putin today said the scale of natural disasters that have hit Russia this year has been “absolutely unprecedented”. Speaking at a video conference with officials on the effects of Siberia’s record-setting forest fires, he said it was...
MOSCOW, Aug 14 — Russian President Vladimir Putin today said the scale of natural disasters that have hit Russia this year has been “absolutely unprecedented”.
While Siberia sees an annual wildfire season each summer, the fires have burned with an increasing intensity in recent years, which Russian weather officials and environmentalists have linked to climate change. “In the south , the monthly norm of rainfall now falls in a few hours and in the Far East on the contrary, forest fires in drought conditions are spreading rapidly,” Putin said.
He also called on officials to calculate the effects of the fires and make plans to reconstruct houses.
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