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Written by admin on 03 February 2012
Kiev, Feb 3 (IANS) A total of 101 people have died so far in Ukraine due to severe cold weather, with 38 succumbing in the past 24 hours till Friday evening, authorities said.
The emergencies ministry said 64 people were found dead on streets, 26 in their homes and 11 died in hospitals over the past seven days.
Most of the victims were homeless who got drunk and fell asleep outdoors, Xinhua reported. Over 1,590 people have been hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite.
Schools and nurseries in the former Soviet republic were closed as temperatures are forecast to drop to minus 35 degrees Celsius in the next five days.
The authorities have set up 2,940 shelters with hot tea and food for the poor.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov asked hospitals not to discharge homeless patients even if their treatment is finished to protect them from the cold.
The cold snap also caused power outages and blocked traffic in most parts of the country.
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Written by admin on 02 February 2012
Kiev, Feb 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Over 60 people have died in Ukraine due to the prevailing severe cold weather since the last weekend, the emergencies ministry said Thursday.
At least 1,146 people suffering from frostbite or hypothermia have arrived at hospitals over the past six days. Some 945 were hospitalized. A total of 63 died of hypothermia, including eight in hospitals, 41 people on the streets, and another 14 in their homes.
Ukrainian forecasters expect cold weather to continue Feb 2, dropping to a night-time low of minus 25-30 degrees Celsius and in some places minus 33 degrees Celsius.
Almost 70 cars and 60 people remain trapped by snowdrifts on the Volgograd-Saratov highway in the Volga region, a spokesman for the regional interior ministry said.
In Georgia, high winds and heavy snow damaged power lines, leaving more than 72,000 customers without power, according to Georgian power distribution companies.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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Written by admin on 02 February 2012
Kiev, Feb 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) As many as 43 people have fallen victim to freezing temperatures that hit Ukraine in the last few days, the country’s Emergencies Ministry has stated.
According to the ministry, 28 people were found dead in the streets, eight died in hospitals, and seven at home, said an official statement Wednesday.
The mercury fell to less than -20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit) in Ukraine at the weekend and the temperature is expected to fall further to at least -30 degrees Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) over the next few days.
As more than 720 Ukrainians have been hospitalised due to hypothermia; a condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism, the government moved to arrange special points for citizens to warm themselves. Some 1,700 such points have been opened across the country.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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Written by admin on 28 January 2012
Kiev, Jan 28 (IANS) Ukraine plans to launch its first telecommunications satellite in 2013, an official said.
“The satellite will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2013,” head of the country’s State Space Agency Yury Alexeyev told reporters Friday, adding that the pay-off period of the satellite was between seven to eight years.
The project, which has cost $292 million, is financed with a 10-year loan from Canada, Alexeyev said.
He said that the satellite was being mounted in Russia’s southern city of Krasnoyarsk, reported Xinhua.
The satellite would be launched by Ukrainian missile “Zenit” at the country’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. It could offer telecommunications services for countries in Central Asia and North Africa.
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Written by admin on 24 January 2012
Kiev, Jan 24 (IANS) Ukraine boosted its production of crude steel by 5.7 percent to 35.3 million tonnes in 2011, said a report by the World Steel Association (WSA).
Ukraine is the world’s eighth largest steel producer, according to the report.
The world’s crude steel production reached 1.527 billion tonnes in 2011, increasing by 6.8 percent year on year, reported Xinhua citing a media report.
China was the world’s top steel maker in 2011, with a production of 695.5 million tonnes.
Ukraine produced 33.5 million tonnes of steel in 2010, a 12.4 percent increase from 2009.
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Written by admin on 16 January 2012
Kiev, Jan 16 (IANS) Ukraine Monday declared an outbreak of measles, with at least 883 cases of the infectious disease reported across the country so far.
Sergey Platov, a top official in the health ministry, however, said it was still too early to talk about the epidemic, according to Xinhua.
Platov told the press that alerts have been sounded in the country’s western and central regions as well as in the capital Kiev.
He urged people to be vaccinated against the disease immediately.
Measles is not usually life-threatening but can cause complications in people with a weak immune system and in pregnant women.
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