Saboteurs damaged electrical transmission towers. Crimea has declared a state of emergency.
Electricity has been completely cut off in Russia’s Crimean peninsula since all power transmission line towers in the neighboring Ukrainian Kherson region were “blown up” by an unknown party, TASS reports. Right Sector militants had been rioting in the area earlier.Crimean authorities rushed to connect hospitals and other vital infrastructure to reserve power stations and generators late on Saturday after the four main transmission lines from Ukraine were cut off in an apparent act of sabotage. The regional energy ministry has created an emergency response center to deal with the power cut.
Earlier on Friday, unidentified saboteurs damaged two of Kherson’s four electricity transmission towers, prompting Crimean authorities to issue warnings of possible power cuts. However, when local Ukrainian repairs crews attempted to reach the site, they were blocked by Crimean Tatar activists and Right Sector militants, who proclaimed they were taking the area “under protection,” TASS reported.
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So, I asked if what’s her face had heard about this. Of course she had. It didn’t just cut off power to Crimea, they also impacted factories in Ukraine. Ukrainian locals are upset and scared.
Blog and newspaper comments seem to indicate the sabotage was done in an effort to provoke military action from Russia. Kind of like the BLM try to provoke police to get video as proof of how bad police are.
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