The bad weather, with violent gusts of wind and giant waves, described as a “megastorm”, caused eight deaths in Russia, in the annexed Crimea, in other occupied regions of Ukraine and in Moldova, authorities and media revealed this Monday.
According to Russian media, this storm, described as the “storm of the century” and “megastorm”, has hit Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed in 2014, southwestern Russia and regions partially occupied by Moscow the hardest since Sunday. from Donetsk. , Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson in Ukraine, according to the Russian Energy Ministry.
The body of a man was found in Sochi, a popular Russian resort, according to regional authorities, who advised people not to go near the water.
In Crimea, another man who had gone to “watch the waves” died, an advisor to Crimea’s governor, Oleg Kryoutchkov, told public television.
One person also died aboard a ship in the Kerch Strait between Crimea and Russia, and a body was discovered in Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region, Russian news agencies reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin received reports of these “climate disasters” and ordered his government to take measures to help the affected territories, revealed Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
In the Krasnodar region, where the coastal town of Anapa is also located, hundreds of trees, as well as numerous metal buildings that adorn the beaches, were uprooted by the wind during the early hours of Monday, causing injuries, the local authority explained. of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
In Vitiazevo, near Anapa, the storm caused a large cargo ship flying the Belizean flag, the Blue Shark, to run aground, according to the same source.
In Crimea, the Black Sea overflowed onto roads and Russian television broadcast images of waves hitting drivers trying to navigate flooded roads.
The governor of this region, Sergei Aksionov, declared a state of emergency and announced a day off this Monday due to bad weather.
In Sevastopol, more than 500 marine animals died in the flooding of the local aquarium caused by the storm, the city’s governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, reported on the Telegram social network.
Ukraine is also facing severe weather conditions, with a snowstorm leaving more than 2,000 towns without power and roads blocked.
Authorities cited by Moldovan media also announced the death of four people.
Two people were found dead in their vehicles in the snow, near the city of Coscalia (southeast).
The body of a 48-year-old man was discovered in the village of Cruglic (east). And another in Grigoriopol, a city in the separatist region of Transnistria.
Source: TSF
