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What happened on 4 December 2019 in Odesa?
Summary
A look back at a fire in Odesa that left 12 dead, and at a Russia–China gas pipeline opened two days earlier.
What did the reports of 4 December 2019 say about Odesa? They described a fire in the city in which 12 people died, 32 were injured and 8 were missing.
The toll was the central fact of that day's reporting from the Black Sea port. The figures for the dead, the injured and the missing were all given together, which meant the full scale of the loss was not yet settled.
A pipeline opened two days earlier
Elsewhere in the region, a different story had unfolded two days before. On 2 December 2019, Russia and China inaugurated their joint Power of Siberia gas pipeline.
The two items were unconnected. Together they mark the range of what was reported in that period: a local tragedy in Ukraine and an energy project linking two large neighbours of the wider region.
