More than 122 Ukrainians have died and more than 1,200 have been hospitalised due to cold-related injuries [EPA]
The death toll from the cold snap across Europe has risen to more than 260, with the winter misery set to hit thousands of those seeking to escape it as air traffic was hit.
Airports were shut, flights and trains delayed, and highways gridlocked as emergency services raced to clear falling snow on Sunday.
Steven Keates, a weather forecaster at Britain’s Met Office, said on Sunday the severe wintry conditions were expected to last, and spread to other areas.
“It will still be very cold. Maybe not quite the exceptional temperatures we’ve seen this last week, but still very cold,” Keates said, adding the current front which brought snow and ice to Britain overnight was now heading to Belgium and Germany.
“[It will be] perhaps turning increasingly unsettled across southern and eastern Europe, so that will probably bring a risk of snow for Italy across to Greece and up round the Balkan countries.”
Deaths continue
Nine more deaths from cold were registered in Ukraine overnight, emergencies services said on Sunday, taking the death toll to
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