MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s president has flipped the switch to open the last of four electricity lines to Crimea aimed at allowing the Russia-annexed peninsula to end its reliance on Ukrainian power.
The line from the Russian mainland that Vladimir Putin inaugurated on Wednesday brings Russia’s electricity supply to Crimea to 800 megawatts a day.
Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, after it sent in troops in the wake of the ouster of Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president and a dubious referendum on the peninsula about joining Russia. After annexation, Crimea continued to buy electricity from Ukraine, but last year experienced severe shortages after …read more
Source: KXAN
