Smoke from Siberian wildfires covers Mongolian capital

Smoke from massive wildfires raging in Russia’s Siberia has reached some parts of Mongolia, including the capital Ulaanbaatar, the country’s National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring said, Report informs via Xinhua.

“In recent days, the capital city and some northern and central provinces of our country have been covered with white smoke, which is from Russia’s Siberian wildfires,” the agency said in a statement.

The total area of forest fires in Russia has exceeded a million hectares. The outbreaks were recorded in Yakutia, Irkutsk Oblast, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky, and Khabarovsk Krai, as well as in the European part of the country.