Government has two weeks to ban electricity supplies to Crimea – Chubarov

The Crimea blockade action participants stopped blocking the pylons in Kherson region but for two weeks only. During this time, the Verkhovna Rada should approve an official ban on electricity supplies to the occupied territories.

Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, MP Refat Chubarov announced such a demand today, December 9, the Ukrayinska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth) online newspaper reports.

Chubarov noted that the activists had been blocking the movement of trucks carrying food and goods from the mainland Ukraine to Crimea since September 20. “The Cabinet is expected today to make the decision to officially ban the export of goods from the mainland Ukraine to the occupied Crimea,” the MP said.

As reported, the power supply to Crimea was stopped from November 22 until December 8.

“Taking into account the fact that the non-operating Kakhovka-Tytan line obstructs providing electricity to several districts of Kherson region, and bearing in mind other factors, in particular, the humanitarian ones, the participants of the Crimea blockade participants decided to give an opportunity to provide supplies from only one branch delivering 220 MWs instead of 850 MWs to Crimea up to November 22,” Chubarov said.

 “This will last for two weeks only so that the government and the local authorities could carry out the works to strengthen the energy supply of Kherson region,” he said.

December 8, the MPs registered the bill to ban the energy supplies to the occupied territories.

Chubarov hopes that the corresponding document will be adopted by the end of the month.

“I hope my colleagues in this hall will not let any minister, any government conclude an agreement on electricity supply until it will be written ‘the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine’ there,” he said.