lynda kincaid reports. >> reporter: big mplumes of smoe billow. russian president vladimir putin issued a scathing warning to regional officials. do more to deal with the fires in siberia. >> translator: we cannot allow a repeat of last year's situation when forest fires were the most long-lasting and intensive of recent years. >> reporter: during a broadcast on russian tv, he noted that 700 homes have been damaged. a russian official said so far this year some 4,000 wildfires have burned in an area the size of luxembourg. last year's fire season was russia's largest ever. more than 18 million hectares of land were destroyed according to greenpeace russia. wildfires have been more intense in russia due to unusually high temperatures linked to climate change. lynda kincaid, cnn. >>> the eurovision song contest, yes, it can be a little weird sometimes. but on saturday, the international spectacle gave much-needed love to ukraine. the country's singing group was the sentimental favorite, and yeah, it came up big. barbie nadeau was following all of it