The storm caused devastation. (symbolic)
A storm and rain caused devastation in the Black Sea region amid the Russia-Ukraine war. At least three people died due to flooding of roads in Russian-occupied Crimea and Ukraine. According to Russian state media and Ukraine’s Energy Ministry, more than half a million people in Russia and Ukraine are currently without electricity. Here the storm has broken trees and downed power lines.
According to the head of Russia’s National Meteorological Service, the storm that hit Crimea was the most powerful, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. It resulted in the death of one person in the resort town, another in Russian-occupied Crimea and a third on a ship in Kerch, which separates Crimea from the Russian mainland.
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No electricity in 1.5 lakh houses
Additionally, more than 2,000 towns and villages remained in darkness on Sunday night, while on Monday morning trees were uprooted, power lines snapped and substations failed in 16 Ukrainian regions, including Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kiev, causing widespread power outages. . Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said 150,000 homes in the region were without electricity, Al Jazeera reported.
1.9 million people affected
Meanwhile, Russia’s Energy Ministry said about 1.9 million people were affected by power outages in the southern Russian regions of Dagestan, Krasnodar and Rostov and the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Crimea. According to the report, after this the Moscow-appointed governor of Crimea declared a state of emergency.
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three people died
Apart from this, after the death of three people and the severity of the storm, hundreds of people have been evacuated. A 110-metre (360 ft) chimney at a heat and power plant in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa collapsed on Sunday night, causing damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Al Jazeera reported. Moscow’s military campaign targeting Ukraine’s power grid has already caused heavy damage to Odessa.
snowfall forecast
Recently, Russia has been attacking civilian infrastructure away from the front lines and has left millions of Ukrainians without electricity, heat and water for days. However, heating supplies have been restored after the plant in Odessa remained closed for several hours due to power fluctuations, according to reports. Additionally, Ukrainian officials said they expected the weather to worsen as forecasters predicted more strong winds and snowfall.
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