Outages in Crimea due to the Peninsula off from electrical power, but the situation is not dramatic, local authorities will do everything to support the work of key facilities, said on the first day of the week the head of the RF Ministry of communications Nikolay Nikiforov.

"of course," said Nikiforov correspondents, answering the question whether there is Disruption of communication in the Crimea in connection with the shutdown of the Peninsula from electrical energy.

"Crimea currently resides in the mode of rolling blackouts And fan connections. And the Crimea, And Sevastopol have divided on certain energy areas, And, as far as I am aware, supposedly for two hours there is included electricity. Key objects, it is Clear that diesel provides. For example, we provided the TV tower, the hospital, " said Nikiforov.

according to his statement, "in the troubled area" there are about 40% of the base stations, mostly outside the cities.

"We do not believe that the situation is dramatic, the local authorities together with the responsible agencies are well coordinated And well ", -said the head of the Ministry.

to the question, what period of time to restore electric power voiced by local authorities, Nikiforov answered, because it does not depend on local authorities.

"You know, this is a purposeful action, I would have described the actions in practice of a terrorist nature to undermine the power lines within a country," he said.

the Minister drew attention that the local authorities will do everything in their power to the maximum to Express support for the work of all key facilities.

"Some kind of drama are not observed, citizens belong to this with understanding. I think it is And has taken such action due to the fact that they understand that in the end concrete developments soon to be completed, the scheduled date was called - the end of December. Was the last historic chance, " said Nikiforov.

last Friday in the Kherson region have been undermined by power transmission towers supplying electricity to the Crimea, at the present time the supply of electricity to the Peninsula from Ukraine is completely finished. Supporters of the blockade of Crimea in Ukraine do not allow repairmen to damaged power lines supports. Review of the Crimean authorities, the energy blockade of the Peninsula are the leaders in Russia of unregistered organization "the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people" Mustafa Dzhemilev. Before he launched the food blockade of the Crimea And openly called for the cessation of its supply. Against him in Russia prosecuted criminal cases for 5 years denied entry to the Russian Federation in connection with the extremist statements.

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