Power outages continue in Crimea. Local residents regularly remain without electricity and heating and record calls to the authorities asking for help.
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what happened
Large-scale power outages have been occurring in the annexed Crimean peninsula for several weeks. On the night of October 24, a power outage occurred on the peninsula due to the attack by the armed forces of Ukraine on a substation in the Krasnodar Territory, which is important for the operation of the energy bridge from Russia to the peninsula. The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhiev, acknowledged the attack and reported a "temporary" lack of electricity supply. On that day, the municipality presented a "two to six" electricity supply schedule, but even this, as the authorities themselves admitted, could not always be met.
They failed to restore the electricity supply as usual: on November 3 and 4, the peninsula was left without electricity again due to new attacks by Ukrainian drones. In some cities, the water supply was completely or partially stopped, and in Sevastopol, Simferopol and Viptoria, public transport began to operate intermittently.
On Monday, Razvozhiev reported that the situation in Sevastopol "remains difficult", and the city is receiving only about half of the required amount of electricity.
How are the residents coping?
According to Karim, outages can last 10-15 hours or more. If in the summer power outages were not so painful, now the inhabitants of the peninsula are complaining en masse on social networks about the cold in their homes. Plus, power outages mean they can't charge their devices or cook food. Many adapt to outages by using generators and stocking up on food items that won't spoil without refrigeration. Some residents record video messages to the authorities asking them to restore the electricity supply.
The energy crisis has already affected the work of schools, where the fall vacation was extended by a week in early November, kindergartens and hospitals.