At least three persons were killed after a deadly storm in the Black Sea region flooded roads in Russia-occupied Crimea and Ukraine, as reported by Al Jazeera. Currently, over half a million people are without power in occupied Crimea, Russia, and Ukraine, where the storm has ripped trees and taken down power lines, according to Russian state media and Ukraine's Ministry of Energy.

According to the head of Russia's national meteorological service, the storm that hit Crimea was the most powerful since record-keeping began, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. Reportedly, one person was killed in the resort city of Sochi, another on the Russian-held Crimean Peninsula and a third died on board a vessel in the Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea from the Russian mainland, Russia's local news agency TASS reported.