Supplies of
electricity to Crimea from Ukraine stopped on November 22 when pylons of all
the four power lines leading to the peninsula from the Ukrainian power grids
were blown up.
MOSCOW,
January 2. /TASS/. The people of Crimea have responded with dignity to the de
facto obscene proposal by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to sign an
agreement on supplies of electricity to the peninsular region on Kiev's terms,
Irina Yarovaya, the chairperson of the State Duma committee for security and
counteraction to corruption said.
On January 1, the All-Russia Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presented the data on a poll of residents of the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol, which showed that 93.1% of those polled spoke against an agreement on purchases of electric power from Kiev if the latter document called Crimea and Sevastopol to be part of Ukraine. Also, 94% respondents said they were prepared to tolerate interim discomforts linked to short outages of electricity in the next three of four months if the electricity agreement with Ukraine was not signed.
On January 1, the All-Russia Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presented the data on a poll of residents of the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol, which showed that 93.1% of those polled spoke against an agreement on purchases of electric power from Kiev if the latter document called Crimea and Sevastopol to be part of Ukraine. Also, 94% respondents said they were prepared to tolerate interim discomforts linked to short outages of electricity in the next three of four months if the electricity agreement with Ukraine was not signed.
"The
conditions put forward by the Ukrainian authorities are something bigger than
just blackmail they bring out the very essence of the Ukrainian
government," Yarovaya said. "By specifying such conditions, the Kiev
policy-makers obviously tried to judge others by themselves."
"But
the Crimeans once again showed that they are Russians, the Russian people who
never give up or sell out," she said. "Poroshenko's proposals falls
into the category of obscene ones and the usual reaction to such thing is
perfectly well known but Crimea answered 'no' gently and with dignity."
Supplies of
electricity to Crimea from Ukraine stopped on November 22 when pylons of all
the four power lines leading to the peninsula from the Ukrainian power grids
were blown up.
The
authorities had to declare a state of emergency in the Crimean Federal District
in the aftermath of the subversive act organized by a nationalistic faction of
the Crimean Tatars and far-right Ukrainian nationalists, who had launched the
so-called blockade of Crimea.
The
situation started improving after the commissioning of the first power line of
the so-called ‘electricity bridge’ that was laid across the seabed of the
Strait of Kerch from the Krasnodar territory. It went on stream on December 2.
The
commissioning of a second power line of the bridge on December 15 increased the
transmissions from the continent to 400 megawatts.
The
authorities plan to bring two more power lines into operation next spring. This
will make the Crimean Federal District totally independent of power supplies
from Ukraine.
The previous agreement on supplies of Ukrainian electricity to Crimea expired on December 31.
Source: ITAR-TASS 02-01-2016
