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Ivan Fyodorov, 65, helps firefighters to control a five-kilometre long trench – that they dug with a tractor some days earlier – to prevent a wildfire from reaching their land in the Siberian region of Yakutia, at the edge of the village of Byas-Kyuel, on July 26, 2021. Fuelled by a June heatwave, wildfires have swept through more than 1.5 million hectares of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga with more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season. It is the third straight year that Russia's coldest region – with a border on the Arctic ocean – has seen wildfires so vicious that they have nearly overwhelmed its Aerial Forest Protection Service. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)
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