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What happened in the region by 6 December 2019?
Summary
A look back at two reports from the days before 6 December 2019: a deadly fire in Odesa and a new Russia–China gas pipeline.
What was the regional picture on 6 December 2019? Two reports from the preceding days framed it: one a local tragedy in Ukraine, the other a major energy project between Russia and China.
Fire in Odesa
On 4 December 2019, it was reported that a fire in Odesa had killed 12 people. Another 32 were injured and 8 were missing. By 6 December 2019, the human toll was the central fact of the story.
A pipeline to the east
Two days earlier, on 2 December 2019, Russia and China inaugurated their joint Power of Siberia gas pipeline.
The two reports were unconnected. They show what international readers were following in the days leading up to 6 December 2019: a disaster in a Ukrainian port city and an energy link between two neighbours of the wider region.
