A total of 12 people had been killed by the cold in Ukraine in the past
week, bringing the death toll rose to 18 in the whole country. This was
conveyed by the local government on Monday (17/12). At least 133 people
were suffering from the cold bite and hypothermia have arrived at
various hospitals for the past nine days, the ministry said, as quoted
by Xinhua.
A total of 131 towns in seven Ukrainian regions have been left without electricity due to heavy rain, wind gusts and the automatic tripping of power line protection systems.
The storm cut electricity supplies to 32 villages and towns in Lviv
region, 23 in Rivne region, 19 in Vinnytsia region, 19 in Khmelnytsky
region, 14 in Ternopil region, 14 in Volyn region, and ten in
Ivano-Frankivsk region, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry's spokesman,
Ihor Kril, told Interfax-Ukraine. Regional power crews are restoring
electricity in the affected areas.
Over the weekend, the capital of Ukraine - Kiev - recorded was minus 15 degrees Celsius at night. In the east and north of the country, temperatures dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius.In Ukraine, thirty-eight more fatalities were reported from frostbite and hypothermia on Friday, raising the nation's death toll to 101. Emergency Officials have said many of the victims were homeless.
Mykola Blyznyuk of the Health Ministry told the Kiev Post newspaper that
many of the victims of hypothermia had their legs broken in falls and
spent a long time on the ground in freezing Temperatures while waiting
for help to arrive.
It was so cold there, that some 1.500 swans, sea gulls and ducks froze to the ice in a small harbor near Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa, forcing emergency workers to use ships to break up the surface and free the birds, Officials said.
The weeklong cold snap - Eastern Europe's worst in decades - is Causing power outages, frozen water pipes and the widespread closure of schools, nurseries, airports and bus routes.
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A total of 131 towns in seven Ukrainian regions have been left without electricity due to heavy rain, wind gusts and the automatic tripping of power line protection systems.
Over the weekend, the capital of Ukraine - Kiev - recorded was minus 15 degrees Celsius at night. In the east and north of the country, temperatures dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius.In Ukraine, thirty-eight more fatalities were reported from frostbite and hypothermia on Friday, raising the nation's death toll to 101. Emergency Officials have said many of the victims were homeless.
The weeklong cold snap - Eastern Europe's worst in decades - is Causing power outages, frozen water pipes and the widespread closure of schools, nurseries, airports and bus routes.
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