Ukraine Weather: News

A severe snowstorm hit Ukraine overnight on Monday, causing traffic disruptions and power outages in 17 regions, Xinhua news agency reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that at least five people have died and 19 injured as a result of a severe storm in the country’s southern region of Odesa. At least 2,019 of villages and towns have been left without electricity as strong winds damaged power grids, the country’s Energy Ministry said on social media. The southern Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, the central Dnipropetrovsk region, and the northern Kiev region were affected the most by the blizzard, said the Ministry. Other affected regions include Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea, with traffic currently blocked on 14 motorways.