KYIV: Overnight Russian strikes on Odesa and Kharkiv killed at least three people, Ukrainian officials said early Monday.
Iranian-made drones pummelled the southern port city of Odesa, igniting fires and damaging apartment buildings and a gas pipeline, according to Sergiy Lysak, head of the city’s military administration.
“A 35-year-old man died as a result of the nighttime attack. Two people were also wounded, including a 19-year-old girl,” he posted in an update.
Regional governor Oleg Kiper said the city was “massively attacked” and confirmed the fires, but did not immediately have information on the toll.
Farther north in the Kharkiv region, state emergency services said they had recovered the bodies of a woman and a 10-year-old boy after a drone attack.
“Three more people were wounded,” the services added in a post on Telegram.
Russia has continued bombarding its neighbor while engaging in US-backed talks to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.
Though Washington wants to see the war end by mid-year, Kyiv and Moscow remain at odds over territorial divisions, with Russia pushing for full control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region as part of any deal.
Russia occupies around 20 percent of Ukraine’s land.
Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 3: officials
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Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 3: officials
- Farther north in the Kharkiv region, state emergency services said they had recovered the bodies of a woman and a 10-year-old boy after a drone attack
Austria snowstorm brings road and power chaos, four deaths
- One man, aged 53, was crushed to death when a snow plow fell down
- Vienna airport said it was forced to temporarily halt all flights in the morning
VIENNA: A major snowstorm hit Austria on Friday leaving four people dead and causing power outages and transport chaos, officials said.
One man, aged 53, was crushed to death when a snow plow fell down some steps in a “residential complex” in the northern city of Linz, police said.
Three skiers were killed in avalanches in the Tyrol region, including a German whose 16-year-old son was seriously injured in the landslide at Nauders. Two of the people died in an avalanche near the St. Anton ski resort, officials said.
Tyrol authorities appealed for skiers to stay away from off-piste activities. The latest deaths took to 18 the number of dead in avalanches in Austria this winter season.
Up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) of snow fell on the Alpine nation since Thursday, prompting alerts for southeast Austria, notably in the region around the city of Graz.
Vienna airport said it was forced to temporarily halt all flights in the morning, and afternoon services were “disrupted.”
One of the main orbital highways around Vienna was closed for several hours, and other sections of highway were blocked by snowdrifts, stranded lorries or poor visibility, said the national automobile association, OAMTC.
Electric companies reported power outages in several regions in the south and east, including Styria, where 30,000 homes lost electricity.
In neighboring Slovenia, 40,000 households were affected, according to local media, which reported major disruptions in the country’s northeast.
