Residents of the village of Sosva have been losing their homes to forest fires for years. In the most recent major incident in April, a wildfire destroyed 130 houses, killed two individuals and left 659 people homeless in this village in the Sverdlovsk region.
Animals were once a soft spot for Vladimir Putin, who took pride in protecting tigers and other species, but the outlawing of the World Wildlife Fund shows war aims and economic interests taking priority.
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