Adverse weather leaves 273 towns and villages in 12 Ukrainian regions without electricity

Strong wind gusts and heavy snowfall have left 273 towns and villages in 12 regions of Ukraine without electricity, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports.

"As of 7:00 on February 9, bad weather conditions (gusts of wind and snowfall) caused blackouts in 273 settlements in 12 regions, in particular: Odesa region - 85, Kherson region - 54, Chernivtsi region - 40, Mykolaiv region - 34, Zaporizhzhia region - 12, Poltava region - 12, Kyiv region - 10, Kirovohrad region - 10, Donetsk region - 7, Zakarpattia region - 5, Zhytomyr region – 3, and Dnipropetrovsk region - 1,” the report reads.

Emergency teams of regional power distribution companies have been involved in the restoration of power supply.

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