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What happened in Odesa on 4 December 2019?
Summary
A look back at a fire in Odesa that left 12 people dead, and at a gas pipeline opened two days earlier by Russia and China.
What happened in Odesa on 4 December 2019? A fire in the Ukrainian port city left 12 people dead and 32 injured. A further eight people were missing.
The toll made the fire a grave event for the city and for Ukraine. Casualty numbers were the figures reported at the time.
A separate development in the region
Two days earlier, on 2 December 2019, Russia and China inaugurated their joint Power of Siberia gas pipeline.
The two events were unrelated. Together they marked the first days of December 2019 for Ukraine and its wider neighbourhood: a local tragedy in Odesa and a major energy project launched by two of Kyiv's larger regional partners and neighbours in the wider sense of the region's politics.
