Large retailers of Crimea was not ready for emergencies With the blackout of the Peninsula, only a small part of them has their energy reserves, said on the last working day of the week during the meeting of the operational headquarters for the destruction of emergency situations Deputy head of the Russian Ministry of energy Andrey Cherezov.

according to the information that led to the process of the meeting, the Deputy Minister of industry and trade of the Republic of Yan Latyshev, of the 94 supermarkets of the Crimea only 10 have independent power sources. In order to prevent the increase in food prices in the Ministry asked to take action to change the schedule of supplying electrical energy for part of a large hypermarket in Simferopol.

"these objects have energy, there is a part of diesel engines. Must be by design. If not - this hypermarket just need to close because it is dangerous to the lives of people who come there, " said Cherezov.

He said that to ensure food security and avoid price increases, the staff is ready to allocate the supermarkets generators, but ordered retailers to figure out the desired load. The fix schedule of supplying electrical energy for powering large retail outlets from permanent sources He finds it impossible, because it entails the correction of power supply of entire areas of the city.

"Technically you to leave (With food), If the whole territory is extinguished, it is impossible," said Cherezov.

Deputy head of the Ministry of emergency situations Alexander Chuprikov, who led the meeting, staff was instructed to consider the feasibility of revising the schedule, noting that the supermarkets of the Crimea, as "poor organization" had their own to take care of their own business through the acquisition of reserve generation.

last Friday in the Kherson region have been undermined by power transmission towers supplying electricity to the Crimea. Currently electricity supply to the Peninsula From Ukraine is completely finished. In Crimea introduced a state of emergency, schedules of emergency outages. On the last working day of the week commenced supply of electricity to the Crimea on the energy bridge from the Krasnodar region, as long as this small amount to supply Kerch, which is experiencing the greatest problems in connection With the case of the Peninsula.

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