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The smog has come back to Moscow for the second time in a month, the BBC has reported.
Last week, the Russian RIA Novosti reported that the smog, caused by the devastating wildfires, has begun to leave the Russian capital and that the air was clear.
However, it has started to come back and on Tuesday Moscow was covered in a blanket of smog again.
Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations has announced that the firefighters have decreased the areas covered by fires by a quarter over the past 24 hours. However, 14 fires are still burning east and southeast of Moscow.
More than 166 000 people and 62 aircrafts and helicopters are working on putting out the fires.
These were the worst fires in modern Russian history. The national death toll attributed directed to wildfires was above 50 and up to 2000 homes have been destroyed.
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Egils Helmanis, the mayor of Ogre, a Latvian town located just over 30 kilometers from Riga, has sustained injuries during a Russian attack in Ukraine
Ukraine is preparing for a major government reshuffle, with the Verkhovna Rada expected to dismiss Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and his Cabinet on 16 July
The Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, reported that a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia damaged a factory owned by the Polish Barlinek Group
Hungary has escalated its confrontation with Ukraine, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban demanding that the European Union impose sanctions on Ukrainian officials over the death of a Hungarian citizen during military mobilisation
The Verkhovna Rada has approved another 90-day extension of martial law and general mobilization in Ukraine
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