The Ukrainian authorities in the situation of shutdown of electricity on the Crimean Peninsula went on about the extremists and Blackmailers, said at a press conference official authorized the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

"in fact, official Kyiv has gone on about these people with not only extremist thinking, but who were engaged in blatant blackmail," Zakharova said on Thursday.

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.

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 ", such as 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 under the criminal code, 5 years denied entry to the Russian Federation in connection with the extremist statements.

"These citizens do not represent the views of the majority - on the contrary, it set an aggressive minority of the Ukrainian society. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian leadership has let himself be drawn into a dangerous adventure, which will pay residents of Ukraine ", - said the official representative of the Russian diplomatic vedomctva.

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