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In a statement published on the messaging app Telegram, Russia's
Federal Forest Management Agency said states of emergency were
in force in the far eastern Yakutia and Zabaikalsky regions
because of forest fires.
It said more than 5,000 people were working to suppress fires
across Russia.
Russia has in recent years been hit by increasingly damaging
forest fire seasons that experts say are driven by rising
temperatures driven by climate change.
Earlier this month, authorities declared states of emergency in
both Yakutia and Siberia's Tuva region, amid escalating fires.
In Yakutia, a remote and heavily-forested region around the size
of Texas, local media reported that blazes had engulfed more
than 930 hectares of land to come within 10 km (6.2 miles) of
Belaya Gora, a village of 2,000 people in the region's
northeast.
Authorities in Yakutia, which has been repeatedly ravaged by
fires in recent years, said fires in three of the region's
districts were under control of emergency services.
(Writing by Felix Light; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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