By the end of this year, Russia and Ukraine may come to terms on guaranteed electric power supplies to Crimea, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak told Russia 24 TV on Thursday.
“As soon as we sign a contract and start supplying electric power from Russia to Ukraine’s energy system, the situation will improve in both Ukraine and Crimea,” Kozak said.
He said that stable energy supplies to Crimea are one of the requirements of this contract and added that the contract may take force next week.
As EAD reported earlier, on Wednesday, Crimea was deenergized for a few hours. Crimean President Sergey Aksenov said that Ukraine’s action was a hostile act of sabotage. Crimea was forced to apply a regime of rotating outages on Dec 24, when it started receiving just 400MW (40% of what it needs). As of 8:00 PM on Wednesday, almost 740,000 Crimeans had no electricity, but socially significant facilities were not deenergized.
On Thursday, the thermal power plants in Simferopol and Saki failed, leaving the republic with just 300MW-320MW of own generation against general 400MW. This may result in new rotating outages.
Nord Stream—2 is expected to be launched by 2030
In the spirit of Orwell: Europe has lost the Ukrainian conflict and is resorting to tricks — Orban
The United States will replace Ukrainians with Migrants to Ukraine — grants are ready for this
Alice Weidel leads the ranking of candidates for the post of Chancellor of Germany — Bild
Kobakhidze said he did not want to send the 72-year-old Zurabishvili to prison.
Rylsk was hit by GMLRS missiles from MLRS HIMARS
Georgian wine exports break records