Anomalous snow paralyzes traffic in Kyiv, airports closed (UPDATED)

March 23, 2013, 10:47 a.m. | Kyiv Post

A driver shovels snow off his vehicle in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 23. Heavy snow storms from the Balkan region have been stricken Ukraine since last afternoon, in the last winter attack at the end of the first spring month.
© AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Heavy snow, extremely rare for late March, virtually paralyzed traffic in Kyiv, and led to many international flights out of the city’s airports delayed and cancelled.

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