MOSCOW, November 27. /TASS/. More than 500 sea animals were killed as a hall at the Sevastopol Marine Aquarium was flooded in a recent storm, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, governor of the Russian Black Sea city.

"Over 500 sea animals were killed as a <…> hall was flooded at the Sevastopol Marine Aquarium," the official wrote on his Telegram channel. According to him, major damage was also done to four science labs at the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas.

The initial alert message for hazardous weather will remain in effect in Sevastopol until lunchtime, with gusts of wind reaching up to 30 meters per second, Razvozhayev added.