
Driving through Siberia's Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva spotted a bear cub in a tree, highlighting a recent wave of deadly bear encounters across Russia.
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Russia has recently experienced a spate of deadly bear attacks, causing concern among residents.
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, as the country grapples with a spate of deadly bear attacks.

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