With Russia in the darkness

In Crimea, power outages began, UNIAN reports . As of 23:00 (01:00 Moscow time), Kerch, Black Sea, Old Crimea, Yalta, Alushta, Simeiz and Migor remain without electricity. Bakhchisaray, Saki, Yevpatoria and Simferopol, and Nizhnyansky, Saksky, Black Sea, Bakhchisarai and Simferopol districts are also partially de -enchanted.

Interruptions in the supply of electricity are associated with the repair of the power transmission line "Kakhovka - Ostrovskaya" and "Melitopol - Dzhanka", which belong to the NEC "Ukrenergo". This was announced by the press service of the company DTEK - Crimenergo, which ensures the supply of the peninsula by electricity. "The consumption of electricity in Crimea is limited by the level of 300 megavatts in order to prevent the development of system accidents and prevent the failure of electric grid equipment," the report says.

The Crimean First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliev accused the Ukrainian authorities of electricity problems, Kryminform reports . "Reducing supplies is an attempt to blackmail the Kiev of the Russian Federation through the Crimea to bargain something for himself," Temirgaliev said.

According to Temirgaliev, deliveries halved. "Now there is a planned fan systematic shutdown depending on the volume of electricity supplied. At the moment, about 30 percent of the Crimea is de -energized. This is not the limit of the fall. If the remaining 50 percent is disconnected, the situation will be even more difficult," he said.

At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister said that Crimea was ready for this step of Kyiv and quickly responded to a decrease in supplies. According to him, there are now about 900 mobile diesel-generating plants on the peninsula. They are already working to provide hospitals, pumping stations for stable water supply, as well as authorities to coordinate work.

“Three thermal power plants in Simferopol, Sevastopol and Kerch are working in the standard mode. Naturally, they will now be launched at full capacity,” Temirgaliev noted. “We have preparations for installing nine mobile electrical installations that generate a fairly greater capacity, it will take about one and a half months, if Kyiv will behave like this, we will have about a month and a half a limited regime energy consumption, then easier. "

The head of the Russian Ministry of Regional Development, Igor Slyunyaev, previously said that the peninsula is 80 percent dependent on the import of electricity.

On March 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying an annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as the Constitutional Law on the procedure for joining these Ukrainian regions into Russia and on the transition period of their integration.

Putin introduced the laws on the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol to the State Duma on March 19 . The next day, the lower house ratified the annexation agreement and adopted in three readings the Constitutional Law on the entry of Ukrainian regions into Russia. Only Ilya Ponomarev voted against all deputies against all the deputies. On Friday, both billswere approved by the Federation Council .

The annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol caused a sharply negative reaction of the world community. The United States, Canada and the European Union imposed sanctions against a number of Russian and Crimean officials and oligarchs, forbidding it to enter their territories and blocking their assets in their countries. The leaders of Western countries did not exclude new sanctions against Moscow, if Russian aggression in Ukraine continues.