At least nine dead in severe weather in Ukraine’s Odesa as war rumbles on

According to the emergency services of the country, at least nine people have died in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa as a result of a severe rainstorm and flooding.

According to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service on Wednesday, 362 others have been saved overall as a result of workers removing trapped people from buildings and removing water from buildings.

The relief efforts led to the discovery of a missing young girl in the early morning, according to the service.

It posted images of vehicles being pulled from the water and of people who had been saved from flooded buses.

Odesa’s mayor, Gennadiy Trukhanov, described the situation as challenging but “under control,” citing almost two months of precipitation falling in the city in seven hours.

The mayor noted that rescue efforts were going on “without a break,” noting that “no storm sewer system can support such a load.”

Three and a half years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, more bad weather is forecast for Thursday, which could raise the difficulties for Ukrainian first responders.

The local military administration in the southern city of Kherson reported a man’s death on Wednesday morning as a result of a Russian attack there.

According to the national police, a policeman was among the injured in an overnight Russian attack in Kharkiv, northeast of Ukraine, and several fires started.

According to Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, five of the six people were taken to a hospital for treatment.

Firefighters attempted to extinguish flames that appeared to be ripping through market stalls, according to videos and photos taken at the scene.

A fire broke out at an oil refinery in the Yaroslavl region, according to the regional governor, Mikhail Yevrayev, over in Russia.

Yevrayev claimed that the blaze had nothing to do with Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine, despite Russia’s ongoing ongoing attack of oil facilities.

Residents were concerned that an enemy drone attack might have led to it, he said. However, the incident is not related to that; rather, the fire is technological in nature.

Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, has criticized the state of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhya nuclear power plant, calling it “critical” because the facility has been without power for seven days.

It’s been seven days now. In his weekly address on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said, “There has never been anything like this.”

According to Russian-installed management at the nuclear plant, the plant’s backup electricity supply is sufficient, but Ukrainian shelling prevents resumption of supply via the Dneprovskaya line, according to Russian state news agency RIA.

Late on Tuesday, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi confirmed that he was “in constant contact with the two sides to enable the plant’s quick reconnection to the electricity grid.”