SIMFEROPO – Power cuts in Crimea affected nearly 940,000 people on Tuesday as tensions raged between Kiev and Moscow over the annexed peninsula and Russia threatened to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine.The Black Sea peninsula has been hit by power cuts since an explosion at the weekend cut power lines from Ukraine, which supplies most of its electricity.Moscow’s energy ministry said that some 938,000 residents of Crimea remained without electricity and Russia was sending 300 mobile generators to the peninsula. …read more
Source: AsiaOne
