Most of Crimea still without electricity
Date
11/23/2015 3:57:01 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) About three-quarters of Crimea’s population remains without power after four electricity transmission towers were blown up in Ukraine’s Kherson region just north of the peninsula.
A state of emergency remained in effect on November 23 and gas-powered generators were providing electricity to the cities of Simferopol Yalta and Saky -- as well as Russian Navy installations at Sevastopol.
Although Crimea was annexed by Moscow in March 2014 in a move that has led to international sanctions against Russia Ukrainian authorities have continued to supply power to the peninsula.
Those supplies are delivered to Crimea along four main power lines from Ukraine’s Kherson region.
But transmission towers along all four of those power lines were blown up on November 20 and 21 and groups of Crimean Tatar activists reportedly have been preventing engineers from reaching the sites to carry out repairs.
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