The two transmission towers in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson were first damaged on Friday. Meanwhile, the Right Sector and Crimean Tatar “activists” have been attempting to block repairs.
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Around 2.5 million residents of Crimea have been left with no constant electricity supply as a result.
On Saturday, power lines that supply Ukrainian energy to Crimea were damaged.
Two of the four transmission towers in Kherson, Ukraine, were damaged on Friday.
It was not immediately clear who had blown up the pylons, but a Russian lawmaker said it was an “act of terrorism” and implied Ukrainian nationalists were to blame. Several activists were slightly injured, while one police officer was stabbed during the turmoil.
Dozens of Crimean Tatars gathered later in Kiev at the presidential administration building to protest against police efforts to undermine what the demonstrators called their “blockade” of Crimea. Workers can return electricity to the Black Sea peninsula within 72 hours of gaining access to the site, Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said at a government meeting.
Former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin deported the entire population of Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in 1944, and the group’s historical grievance with Russian Federation remains strong to this day.
The sudden cut-off of electricity triggered alerts at two Ukrainian nuclear plants as operators tried to unload excess power, Russian Federation Today reported, citing an official from the Ukrenergo energy firm.
Mikhail Sheremet, Crimea’s deputy prime minister, said the peninsula’s hospitals had backup power sources and would not be affected.
The destroyed outlines Crimea to all were anticipated to beat least partly restored later Sunday, the Russian reports stated.
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“Teams are ready to fix the consequences of the blasts in the course of four days”, said Igor Boska, the regional head of Ukrenergo, the national power supply company. Crimean authorities said they had managed to partially reconnect the cities of Simferopol, Yalta and Saky using generators, the BBC reported. “Plus mobile gas turbine power plants are working”, he said.
