Deputy Prime Minister ordered to urgently correct the circumstances with a stop of factories of the military-industrial complex because of the shortage of electrical energy in the Crimea.

"When I flew to Simferopol, I got acquainted with a number of materials that have been prepared by the office of the Board of the military-industrial Russian enterprises. I won't name specific figures, although in practice everywhere, across each row, where the narrative is about the specific company or the enterprise, says that the production activity of the enterprise is stopped, the harm such-and-such or according to the schedule of supply of electric energy only employs management and engineering staff, the production activity is stopped, " - said Rogozin at a meeting in Simferopol.

"This is a serious disruption of the entire production technology of our work, we need urgently to correct the situation ", - he said.

The power system of the Crimea more than a week worked in stand-alone mode, afterward as the night of November 22, as a result of undermining 2 the transmission towers in the South of Ukraine is completely over the supply of electricity to the Peninsula. In Crimea and Sevastopol were introduced a state of emergency, schedules of emergency outages.

Ten days later the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin arrived in the Crimea and has launched the first phase of the power bridge from the Krasnodar region through the Kerch Strait, which gave the Peninsula a further 230 MW, until December 20 will be another 230 megawatts that will allow us to significantly reduce the shortage of electrical energy. The second phase will provide an opportunity to increase the power flow to 800-840 MW - its completion is expected until the summer of 2016.

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