The fires that engulfed the Urals, including the Sverdlovsk region, are viewed from space.
Roskosmos posted a photo taken by the Kanopus-V Earth remote sensing satellite on its Telegram channel.
The comment on the image is as follows: “Roscosmos continues to monitor the situation with fires in the Sverdlovsk region. A picture of our Canopus-V satellite – this space assistant promptly notifies ground services of natural disasters.
The image showed the situation as of the morning of 8 May. According to the official report, the fire covered more than 54.1 thousand hectares of forest.
More than 4.8 thousand experts and about 6 thousand volunteers are fighting the fire.
The fires that broke out in the Middle Urals on May 9 are planned to be extinguished on an area of at least 2,000 hectares and localized at 19,000.
Formerly E1 portal made Video compilation with active strong forest fires in the Urals.