The
Crimean occupying authorities have announced Monday, November 23, will be a
bank holiday on the peninsula due to a total power blackout after the
transmission lines in the south of mainland Ukraine that supplied electricity
to Crimea were destroyed in the early hours of November 22, according to the
Ministry of Domestic Policy, Information and Communication of the Republic of
Crimea.
A corresponding order was signed by the so-called head of the Republic of
Crimea Sergei Aksyonov, the ministry's press service reported.
Though, government and municipal employees will work
on that day.
On November 22, 2015, Crimea introduced a state of
emergency after the peninsula had been cut off Ukraine's electric grids.
As part of measures to handle the power blackout, the
local authorities also used rotating power cuts in Crimea on Sunday evening.
Strategic facilities and social infrastructure were
switched to the reserve and self-generated power supply.
The so-called First Vice Prime Minister of the Crimean
government, Mikhail Sheremet, said that Crimea would be able to meet its demand
for electricity by 50% if it used own sources of energy.
"Our demand [for electricity] today is 1.2 GW. As
of now, with all power supply equipment taken together, we've got about 0.6 GW.
And this is under the most favorable conditions," he said, according to Russian
news agency TASS.
In his words, all hospitals are now connected to the
reserve power supply.
As of 19:30 Moscow time on Sunday, about 1.396 million
people in the Republic of Crimea and about 250,000 people in the city of
Sevastopol were cut off the power grids, according to the Russian Energy Ministry's website.
It also reported that 300 schools, kindergartens and
other social facilities remained de-energized.
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