Ten people died and 23 were injured after the violent storm that hit Ukraine, according to a new report published this Tuesday by the Minister of the Interior.
“In total, 10 people died” in the regions of Odessa and Mykolaiv (south), Kharkiv (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 Russian media, the storm began to make itself felt on Sunday, according to emergency services.
In Ukraine, authorities said more than 2,000 cities were plunged into darkness as a violent snowstorm swept through the country, whose power system is already under strain from Russian bombing.
The storm caused damage to roads: 1,370 trucks were forced to temporarily stop and 840 vehicles had to be towed, he added.
In the southern city of Odessa, which is regularly targeted by Russian attacks, authorities said they had helped 1,624 people who were trapped in the snow.
On Monday, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry reported that the storm killed two people and left about three million residents without power in Russia and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.
The most affected regions are Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014, southern Russia and the partially occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in Ukraine, said the Ministry of Energy, quoted by the TASS news agency.
Source: TSF
