In Crimea is increasing grouping to overcome the shortage of energy and primary life support of the residents, said the Deputy head of the Ministry of emergency situations Alexander Chupriyan.

"Now there is a build-up of personnel and equipment ", - he reported at the meeting of the working group of the governmental Commission, which was held by the head EMERCOM of Russia Vladimir Puchkov.

Now in Crimea there are nine towns life-support that were used by about 8 thousand people." Citizens thank us for this work. 18 deployed field kitchens, and their number is increasing ", - said Chupriyan.

Crimea was completely disconnected on the night of November 22 as a result of undermining 2 transmission poles coming from the Ukraine. Currently the power system of the Peninsula is working in stand-alone mode. In Crimea and Sevastopol entered a mode of an emergency situation and schedules of emergency outages. Was stopped the heat supply to the residential home in order to save electrical energy. In the Republic because of the shortage of electric power had to stand most of the large industrial enterprises.

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