Overview

• Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry says more than 400 firefighters are deployed near Gelendzhik to contain the blaze.
• Regional authorities reported the fire began after debris from a Ukrainian drone fell in a forested area earlier in the week.
• Ministry footage shows trees burning, ash-covered ground and an aircraft carrying water over the site.
• Officials have not indicated any direct threat to the nearby luxury estate long alleged by Alexeï Navalny to be linked to Vladimir Putin, a claim Putin denies.
• The incident underscores Ukraine’s deep-reach drone campaign into Russia, which investigative outlet Proekt reports has influenced Putin’s travel patterns, including fewer trips to vulnerable coastal locales such as Sochi.