Today at 10:12 a fire broke out in the Odessa College of Economics, Law and the Hotel and Restaurant Business on the 3rd floor of a 6-story educational building.

By 12:10 rescuers completed the evacuation of people from a burning building.

The fire in the Odessa College of Economics, Law and the hotel and restaurant business is localized at 14:18 on an area of \u200b\u200b4000 square meters.

The police began criminal proceedings on the fact of the fire. Information about the event is included in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations on. 2 tbsp. 270 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Violation of fire safety requirements established by law, which led to deaths, property damage on an especially large scale or other grave consequences).

As of 19:40, the number of victims of a fire in the Odessa College of Economics, Law and the hotel and restaurant business has grown to 26 people. One person died. Also not located 15 people.

December 5 and 6, declared mourning days in Odessa.

*** The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved in the second reading bill No. 2045-1, which will introduce a mechanism for obtaining the status of a participant in hostilities by volunteers.

*** The Ukrainian parliament in the second reading and as a whole voted bill No. 2233 on amendments to the law "

*** The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed Anton Drobovich the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.

*** The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a decree on the launch of New Customs. This enables the newly created Customs Service and its territorial bodies to begin full-fledged work..

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*** The government launched a pilot project to create a digital ID of citizens of Ukraine - verification of users of electronic registries.