More than 140 emergency response teams with a total number of about 1, 2 thousand people used to work to maintain the power supply of the Crimean Peninsula, informs on the first day of the week the Ministry of emergency situations of Russia.

The Crimea in the night of Sunday was completely de-energized because of the erosion in the South Ukraine transmission towers supplying electricity to the Peninsula. According to the information of EMERCOM of Russia, over the supply of electricity from the integrated grid of Ukraine for the Crimean outlet on interstate line VL-330 kV " Melitopol-Dzhankoy and Kakhovka-Ostrovskaya ".

in the region introduced a state of emergency until full power is restored. Important infrastructure and social facilities of Crimea after the cessation of supplies from Ukraine were connected to emergency power sources, and among them generators.

"Just for the works used more than 3000 people and 1000 pieces of various mechanisms and among them 142 emergency recovery team (1229 people, 607 units) ", - reported in the report.

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