Bad weather in Ukraine leaves 525 towns and villages without electricity

Adverse weather conditions have left 525 populated areas in 13 regions of Ukraine without electricity, four people  have been injured as a result of the fall of trees, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has reported.

“As of 7 a.m., July 3, bad weather conditions (strong wind, rain, hail) caused blackouts in 525 populated areas in 13 regions, in particular: Dnipropetrovsk region – 163 populated areas, Chernihiv region – 110, Vinnytsia region – 57, Mykolaiv region – 41, Chernivtsi region – 38, Kirovohrad region – 35, Donetsk region – 26, Luhansk region – 14, Zaporizhzhia region – 12, Zhytomyr region – 11, Sumy region – 9, Cherkasy region – 6, and Kyiv region – 3,” reads the report.

Emergency teams of regional power distribution companies have started to conduct needed repairs to resume electricity supply.

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