KYIV, Oct 6 – Some 195 villages in western Ukraine suffered power cuts when power line safety systems were triggered as a result of bad weather conditions, namely rain and heavy winds, over the night of October 5 to October 6, Ukraine's State Emergency Service has said.

The villages were located in seven regions: Ivano-Frankivsk (48), Lviv (44), Volyn (42), Rivne (23), Zakarpattia (18), Ternopil (17), and Chernivtsi (3) regions, it said.