Aksyonov: Crimea is ready for possible food blockade from Ukraine
Republic of Crimea fully prepared for transport and food blockade from Ukraine, told reporters on Tuesday in Simferopol, the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov.

Republic of Crimea fully prepared for transport and food blockade from Ukraine, told reporters on Tuesday in Simferopol, the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov.
People's deputies of Ukraine Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev said Tuesday at a press conference in Kiev on the preparation of blocking the border with Crimea to suspend deliveries of food and other items in the Crimea. In the action, according to their statements, is going to participate, the initiative group of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian patriots.
"Crimea is always ready for that eventuality. We do not wish to disrupt the communication of economic entities in the Crimea and Ukraine, many were multi-year contract. The nationalists, as always, ready to do a poor country but We are ready for this ", - said Aksenov.
According to the head of the Crimea, crossing in Kerch works reliably, and the entire transport stream has the ability to be refocused on her. In addition, if the blocking happens, it will most importantly, is not beneficial to the citizens of Ukraine, mostly from Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
"has the ability to be, citizens of Ukraine of their (Dzhemilev and Chubarov) will bind and put under detention," - said Aksenov.
at the end of April at the meeting of economywide of Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has summed up that the dependence of the Peninsula by small groups of objects up to 40%. He clarified the need for further work to reduce dependence on imported items, as well as among them, Ukrainian.
currently, the Peninsula provides itself with electricity to its production by 30%, to increase the independence from the supply of electrical energy through the territory of Ukraine by the end of the year will be put into use primarily energy bridge the Kuban, Crimea capacity of 300 MW. Now Crimea consumes about 900 MW, while the flows from Ukraine is 700 MW. The second phase will provide an opportunity to increase the power flow to 800-840 MW.
Ukraine provided to 85% of the needs of the Crimea in fresh water through coming from the Dnieper North-Crimean canal, this water is used mostly for irrigation of farmland. After the reunification of the Crimea with Russia to supply water for the canal was completely discontinued. Due to weather conditions and events on transferring water Crimea today is fully self drinking water, authorities said.