Wildfires hit Siberian nature reserve

Wildfires that have scorched parts of Siberia this summer on the back of a prolonged heatwave spread to a remote Russian nature reserve on Saturday. The fire has been raging in the forest of the Denezhkin Kamen Nature Reserve for a week and hit the area of 30 hectares. Reportedly, there are 153 active fires across the country, with 40 of them in the Sverdlovsk region.