Poroshenko to consider e-petition against electricity supply to Crimea
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will consider the e-petition calling to stop supplies of Ukrainian electricity to the Crimean peninsula.
As of 18:00 October 19, 2015, the petition, published at the website of the President of Ukraine, was signed by more than 26,000 citizens.
Serhiy Skorokhod, the petition’s author, believes that electricity supplies to Crimea should be stopped to make Crimean residents realize disadvantages of life without Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, the current policy of the Ukrainian government does not allow Crimea to realize all the disadvantages of life without Ukraine. Moreover, it runs to the absurd, as supplying electricity to occupation authorities in Crimea, Ukraine is forced to buy electricity from the neighboring aggressor state,” Serhiy Skorokhod wrote in the petition.
As reported, September 20, the Crimean Tatars started the ongoing campaign “Civil blockade of the peninsula” aiming to stop supporting the occupation of the peninsula by Ukrainian resources.
Subsequently, they announced the launch of the energy blockade.
As known, the Crimean peninsula is 70% dependent on the energy supplies from the mainland Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia is building the energy bridge to Crimea.
The Commissioner of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for the European Court of Human Rights Borys Babin says that, according to the IV Geneva Convention, the occupying power should provide the residents of the occupied territories with all the necessary.
