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10 of January, 16:06

Frosts and snowfall hit Ukraine Frosts and snowfall hit Ukraine. There are dead. The utility can not cope with the workload. In several areas a massive accident on the power lines. Against this background, once again talking about the Russian gas. Private fuel before the end of winter may not be enough.

Just a day in the country due to the cold and bad weather, 10 people were killed, over 50 injured. Dozens of settlements are de-energized because of the icy conditions struck power lines. Were left without electricity residents of Odessa, Lviv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Kirovogradskoy and Cherkasy regions. Difficult situation on the roads. During the day, the drifts grow 10-15 cm of snow, the utilities do not.

Restricted movement of vehicles, including trucks, in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Trucks are not allowed in Kiev. In the Ukrainian capital, the situation is very complicated. That road does not strewed, Advisor to the mayor Dmitry Belotserkovets explained that the alleged under 17-degree frost, what was in Kiev on weekend, salt and reagents do not work. The mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko, who until January 6, was on vacation, came back and organized in Kiev a night RAID and made sure that harvesting equipment is not working. 3rd day in a row in Kiev fear that Russia shut off the gas. Talking about it from morning till night being on the main information channels of Ukraine. And the occasion was a post in the social networks of the company "Naftogaz of Ukraine", representatives of which said that in Russia the frost is more severe than in Ukraine and, most likely, the Russians themselves have nothing to heat. Against this background, once again there are reports that Ukraine per day reduced the reserves of gas in storage.
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