
In the annexed Crimea, two gas pipelines and a power line were damaged, the security forces do not exclude sabotage. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the information center of the National Anti -Terrorism Committee.
"Yesterday, at about 20:00, at the gas distribution station located near the village of Vinogradnaya of the Alushta of the Aluste of the Republic of Crimea, a decrease in gas pressure was recorded. At the same time, the supply of electricity was stopped due to the fall of the power transmission line. When examining the scene of the incident, experts were discovered by external damage to the gas pipeline line, the NAKA reported by law enforcement agencies. Measures to establish all the circumstances of the incident and the involvement of specific persons to it.
The nature of damage to the gas pipeline in the south of Crimea indicates the mechanical impact on the pipe, said the director of the company Crimegazes, Sergey Tarasov. "There is external deformation of the pipe - mechanical damage, experts will give the conclusion, I am not an expert," he said.
According to Tarasov, about three thousand consumers were left without gas in the settlements of the cliff, grape, red -kamenka, partenite, cypress and Pushkino. As a result of damage to the second pipeline, which occurred about 5 in the morning on Wednesday, the gas stopped entering the villages, where one and a half thousand people live.
On the night of the FSB, the FSB suspended the work of all three automobile checkpoints in the north of Crimea on the administrative border with Ukraine. The special service said that this was done "for technical reasons." About 11 hours on Wednesday, a representative of the regional border department of the FSB said that the pass to Ukraine has been restored.
After reports of damage to gas pipelines in Crimea, the Black Sea Fleet switched to increased readiness mode. “We crossed the reinforced regime when various objects are taken under additional protection, starting with social and ending with the military, primarily warehouses of various weapons,” the informed source of Interfax said .