Crimea was completely disconnected in the night of Sunday, the power supply later turned out not to fully recover only in the regional capital Simferopol, said Last news the head of the information Department of the Crimean Central Board of the emergency Ministry Vladimir Ivanov.

on the first day weekend in the South of Ukraine were damaged the power lines supplying energy to the Crimea. In "Ukrenergo" has not excluded that the supply of electricity in the Crimea have the opportunity to be completely stopped for some time. The energy Ministry also warned that the disruption will have the opportunity to lead to restrictions in energy supply to Crimea. In the night of Sunday in the Ukrainian interior Ministry said that the feet of the first damaged power lines blown up.

"Crimea is completely de-energized in 00. 25 Sunday, At this time not fully able to restore electricity to Simferopol from baseline generation ", - said Ivanov.

according to his statement, employs regional headquarters of the Council of Ministers of Crimea for the maintenance of security and energy supply problems of the Republic. At the meeting staff discussed the issue of life support vital infrastructure and social facilities of Crimea with the help of emergency power sources, said Ivanov.

Despite the power outage, in Simferopol continues to work mobile communications. In Crimea, two mobile network operators. However, by the end of 2014 due to the complete de-energizing of mobile connectivity.

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