Ас satellite imagery from "Fire Map,"(a Russian website that shows where forest fires are currently burning across the globe) shows, when the smoke began to envelop Khabarovsk two weeks ago, fires were indeed mainly in Heilongjiang and the Jewish Autonomous Republic: 
Picha ya sertilaiti kutoka "Fire Map,"(tovuti ya Urusi inayoonesha maeneo yenye moto duniani kote) inaonesha, moshi ulipoanza mjini Khabarovsk majuma mawili yaliyopita, kulikuwa na matukio ya moto kwenye eneo la Heilongjiang na hata kwenye Jamhuri Huru ya Kiyahudi: