Ten people have died and 23 were injured as a result of the violent storm that hit Ukraine, according to a new report released today by the Interior Minister.
‘A total of ten people died’ in the regions of Odessa and Mykolaiv (south), Kharkov (east) and the city of Kiev (north), Minister Igor Klymenko said in a message on the social network Telegram.
Data released Monday evening indicated five deaths.
Dubbed the ‘storm of the century’ and ‘megastorm’ by the Russian media, the bad weather started to manifest itself on Sunday, emergency services said.
In Ukraine, authorities said more than 2,000 towns were plunged into darkness as a fierce snowstorm swept through the country, whose electrical system is already under strain from Russian bombing.
The storm caused damage to roads, forcing 1,370 trucks to temporarily stop and 840 vehicles to be towed, he added.
In the southern city of Odessa, which is a regular target of Russian attacks, authorities said they had helped 1,624 people trapped in the snow.
On Monday, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said severe weather killed two people and left about three million residents without electricity in Russia and areas of Ukraine under Russian occupation.
The most affected regions are Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014, southern Russia and the partially occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporijia and Kherson regions of Ukraine, the Energy Ministry said, quoted by TASS news agency.
Source: DN
