State Of Emergency In Crimea After 2 Transmission Towers In Ukraine Sabotaged Resulting In Blackout Ukraine Has Now Imposed An Economic Blockade

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"Ukraine responded to Russia’s demands to restore power to a blacked-out Crimea by imposing a blockade on all freight shipments to the Russian-occupied peninsula on Monday.

Kiev also refused to offer any timetable to resume electricity supplies to Crimea a day after a suspicious explosion on a transmission line wiped out nearly all electricity to the peninsula’s 2m inhabitants.

Ukraine’s unusually bold move risks deepening a stand-off with Russia at a time when tensions between the two nations have been creeping up again."

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"Electricity has been completely cut off in Russia’s Crimean peninsula since all power transmission line towers in the neighboring Ukrainian Kherson region were “blown up” by an unknown party, TASS reports. Right Sector militants had been rioting in the area earlier.

Crimean authorities rushed to connect hospitals and other vital infrastructure to reserve power stations and generators late on Saturday after the four main transmission lines from Ukraine were cut off in an apparent act of sabotage. The regional energy ministry has created an emergency response center to deal with the power cut.

Earlier on Friday, unidentified saboteurs damaged two of the four Kherson pylons, prompting the Crimean authorities to issue warnings of possible power cuts. However, when maintenance brigades attempted to reach the site, they were blocked from doing repairs by Crimean Tatar activists and Right Sector militants, who proclaimed they are taking the area “under protection,” TASS reported.

The Crimean Emergencies Ministry has declared a state of emergency due to the complete power outage and has put rescue teams on high alert.

The Crimean power grid has been working in standalone mode since the incident. “Due to the complete shut off from the Ukrainian power grid, Crimean grid is operating in standalone mode,” TASS quoted a local emergency response unit as saying."

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Last Edited by COSMIC WARRIOR on 11/23/2015 06:28 PM