In Crimea, lost electricity

Damaged electrical supports on the border with the Crimea. Photo: facebook.com/kivailya

In Sevastopol, Simferopol, Evpatoria, Saki and Theodosia there is no light. Messages about outages are distributed in social networks, come from freelance authors of the publication "Left Bank" from the Crimea. Mobile communication is still working - Crimeans go online via smartphones.

“Rubanuli is around 0.20,” writes a Sevastopol under the nickname Halk at the city forum of Sevastopol.

Previously unknown persons undermined two electric supports on the border with the Crimea. Because of this, Russia stopped the shipment of coal for Ukraine, which is necessary for the operation of seven thermal power plants. Due to the undermining of power lines, residents of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions may remain without electricity.

Today, representatives of the police arrived at the site of the collapse of electric supports to Chaplink so that the repairmen could ground the supports. In this regard, the special forces surrounded the blown-up power lines and participants in the blockade of the Crimea. There was a small skirmish, reports UNIAN.

Previously, with the demand to stop the supply of electricity to the Crimea, participants civil blockade of the Crimea. The action is led by the owner of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR Lenur Islyamov, who last year was a citizen of Russia and even worked in the occupying government of the Crimea under Sergey Aksenov. But after his resignation, he brought the editorial office to Kiev, received a Ukrainian passport and initiated a rally on the commodity blockade of the Crimea.

Earlier, the President of Ukraine a petition was sent about disconnecting the Crimea from the power supply. The document scored the required number of votes in less than two months, and now has to be considered by the head of state within ten days.

And Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that his country intends toreclaim at least a trillion from Russia dollars for the annexed Crimea and the destroyed Donbass.