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Over 3,000 bears culled in Russia after wave of deadly attacks: ‘we’ve never had this’
🇷🇺 RussiaOct 17, 2026 06:13SRC: SOUTH CHINA MORNING POSTBY: Agence France-Presse
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
Seeing what looked like a brown blob in a tree while driving through Siberia’s Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva pulled over, curious to get a better look. She was not expecting to find a bear cub, perched on a branch, several metres up. “We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby,” Tyurneva said, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear. Her sighting was one of several to spook Russians in recent weeks,.
DETAILED REPORT
Seeing what looked like a brown blob in a tree while driving through Siberia’s Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva pulled over, curious to get a better look.
She was not expecting to find a bear cub, perched on a branch, several metres up.
“We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby,” Tyurneva said, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear.
Her sighting was one of several to spook Russians in recent weeks,...
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