At Least 10 Dead as Powerful Snowstorm Hit Ukraine
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Officials gave grim accounts of where the dead were found.
“All the deceased were discovered on the streets,” Reeva said Tuesday. “According to preliminary information, they died of hypothermia.”
Badai salju di Ukraina
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She said a total of 6,000 Interior Ministry personnel had been involved in responding to the storm since Sunday.
Rescue teams evacuated nearly 2,500 people from Odesa, including 162 children, according to Governor Oleh Kiper.
“849 vehicles were towed, including 24 buses and 17 ambulances,” he wrote on Telegram.
The extreme weather was caused by a low-pressure system over eastern Europe over the weekend. Wind speeds of up to 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour on Sunday were reported.
In occupied Crimea, the Russian-appointed head of the peninsula Sergey Aksenov announced a state of emergency in 10 municipalities on Tuesday.
“Yesterday I reported the situation to our President (Vladimir Putin), who gave instructions to the federal government to allocate funds for the restoration of the destroyed infrastructure,” Aksenov wrote on Telegram, as reported from CNN site.
The storm had left some 93,000 people in Crimea without electricity, and disrupted the water supply to 245 villages, Aksenov said.
“Work at the sites is being carried out around the clock. Teams of resource specialists have been formed,” he said.
The Russian Emergency Ministry also warned the situation could deteriorate across the country, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Climate change, caused primarily by humans burning fossil fuels, is making severe storms in many parts of the world more frequent. In Ukraine, the overall snow cover each year is expected to decline as the planet warms further.
But climate change is also making heavy snowfall events in winter more frequent there.
The country is also grappling with drought that has impacted agriculture, also made more likely by the climate crisis, as well as an uptick in flooding events.
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