Russia says hurricane winds and heavy flooding have left about 1.9 million people without power in the south, referring also to Ukrainian regions illegally annexed by Moscow. Russia's energy ministry says the worst hit are Dagestan, Krasnodar and Rostov, as well as Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.

More than half a million people are without power in occupied-Crimea, Russia and Ukraine after a storm in the Black Sea region flooded roads, ripped up trees and took down power lines, according to Russian state media and Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy.

Fierce storms killed three people on the Russian and Crimean Black Sea coast on Monday, with hundreds evacuated. State news agency TASS reported that one person had been killed in the resort city of Sochi,

A weekend storm that pounded the Black Sea region toppled trees, tore down power lines and flooded coastal areas of southern Russia and Ukraine, leaving more than a half-million people without power Monday,

A Black Sea storm left half a million people without power in Crimea and halted crude loadings at Russia’s Novorossiysk and the CPC terminal, leading to an oil-production drop in Kazakhstan.

Over 400,000 people in Crimea were left without power on Monday, after hurricane force winds and heavy rains battered the Russian-annexed peninsula over the weekend. More than two thousand towns and villages on the Ukrainian mainland were also left without power due to bad weather on Monday,