RIA Novosti found that more than 10,600 people may have died due to extremely high temperatures in Europe, which studied the data of the European mortality monitoring network EuroMOMO. In the middle of June, the weather was unusually hot in Europe.
In several countries, the temperature has risen to 40 degrees Celsius, and in some places it has even exceeded that mark.
In the last week of June, several European countries set temperature records. According to EuroMOMO charts, the death rate for the 26th week of 2026 (June 22-28) was 10,651.
