Reuters, 23/11 17:07 CET
By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets
KIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Ukrainian
activists prevented repairs to sabotaged power lines leading to Crimea
on Monday, keeping the Russian-annexed peninsula starved of electricity
for a second day and tensions between Moscow and Kiev high.
Ethnic Tatars and members of Ukrainian nationalist
battalions stopped Ukrainian engineers fixing four pylons blown up by
unknown attackers over the weekend in Kherson, a region of the Ukrainian
mainland controlled by Kiev.
If “we get confirmation that we have access, we can start
restoring the lines as soon as tomorrow,” said Vsevolod Kovalchuk, the
acting head of state power supplier Ukrenergo, which has said it is
holding talks with the activists.
Russian engineers began laying undersea cables from
southern Russia to Crimea earlier this year to allow the contested
territory, which is home to around 2 million people, to draw all its
power from Russia by 2020.
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Source: Euronews
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