Crimea: state of emergency declared

  23 November 2015    Read: 747
Crimea: state of emergency declared
A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea after power lines carrying electricity from Ukraine were reportedly sabotaged.
The peninsula was left in the dark after the transmission towers were toppled on Saturday.

Generators are supplying power for vital services like hospitals and communications.

But 1.9 million of Crimea’s two million-strong population remain without electricity.

Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014 after a referendum.

Russian media are saying the pylons in the Kherson region bordering Crimea were blown up by Ukrainian nationalists.

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