Kiev said that the supply to the Crimea in January-September brought a $765 million
Ukraine for the period from January of this year and before the beginning of the siege of Crimea set on a Peninsula of the objects in 765 million dollars, said the head of Ministry of economic development and trade of Ukraine aivaras Abromavicius.
Crimea and Sevastopol became the Russian regions after the referendum in which an overwhelming number of residents voted for joining the Russian Federation. In September 2015 the activists of the banned in Russia as extremist movement "Right sector" and other Ukrainian organizations blocked the delivery of food to the Crimea and started a "perpetual food blockade" of the Peninsula. Even earlier, in December 2014, Ukraine in himself stopped moving buses and trains across the border with the Crimea.
"Before September 20, began the physical block, we put (goods - ed.) in the amount of 765 million dollars ", - said Abromavicius at a press conference on the first day of the week.
However, he clarified that 45% of this amount is electricity, the rest for food and other goods.
last Friday in the Kherson region have been undermined by power transmission towers supplying electricity to the Crimea in the night of Sunday the supply of electricity to the Peninsula from Ukraine were fully completed. In Crimea introduced a state of emergency, schedules of emergency shutdowns of electricity and water supply, about 1, 6 million people remain without electricity. On-site generation has allowed to provide electricity in several cities of the Crimea. While supporters of the blockade of Crimea in Ukraine does not allow repair crews to damaged power lines pillars, on which were hung the flags - Ukrainian and approved by the Kurultay of the Crimean Tatars in 1991.
review of the Crimean authorities, the energy blockade of the Peninsula is, for example, the head of the unregistered in Russia the organization "the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people" Mustafa Dzhemilev.
together with another leader Refat Chubarov - he had initiated a food blockade of the Crimea and openly called for the cessation of its supply. Against both in Russia prosecuted them for 5 years denied entry to the Russian Federation in connection with the extremist statements.