Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames?
- Posted on October 23, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames?

In 2024, nearly a million hectares of Ukraine’s land burned. Heat, mines and shelling contributed, but footage of drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimes