Winter Tatar Sabotage

[Horn]

Crimea hit by power blackout and Ukraine trade boycott
Ukraine has suspended deliveries of goods to Crimea, where a power blackout has caused major disruption.
Only essential services and government offices are operating in Crimea after key electricity pylons connected to the peninsula were knocked down in Ukraine.
Protesters, including Crimean Tatars, are preventing the repair work. Russia has warned of retaliatory measures.
Ukraine is planning new rules for cargo traffic for the southern peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
There has been disruption to road and rail traffic to and from Crimea since Ukrainian nationalists and Crimean Tatars began a border blockade in September.
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev said the protesters would only let engineers repair two pylons that serve areas of mainland Ukraine - not the two linked to Crimea.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34899491

[mick silver]

I wonder how much longer before putin cut the gas off to heat there homes

[Horn]

Appears they do a good portion of their jousting about over there after the harvest season,

maybe they plan on Russia taking a break for Christmas?

[mick silver]

Russia says to halt gas supplies to Ukraine, mulling coal cut off over CrimeaMOSCOW
























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Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak (C) attends an extraordinary ministerial meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran November 21, 2015.
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MOSCOW Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Moscow would cut gas supplies to Ukraine on Tuesday or Wednesday because Kiev had not paid up front for more gas and might also halt coal supplies to Ukraine in retaliation for a power blackout of Crimea.
Alexander Novak, in comments to Vesti FM radio station, was speaking as Russian-annexed Crimea continued to rely on emergency generators to meet its basic power needs after unknown saboteurs blew up electricity pylons supplying the peninsula with electricity over the weekend.
Pro-Ukrainian activists have so far prevented repairs to the damaged pylons and associated power lines.

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"Today or tomorrow gas deliveries will be stopped because of lack of advance payment," said Novak, saying Ukraine was in any case using very little Russian gas.
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He complained that Ukrainian authorities were not doing what they needed to allow repair crews to restore power to Crimea "out of some kind of political motivation", calling their inaction a crime.
"There are different options, political ones, economic ones," said Novak, when asked how Russia could retaliate.
"Russia delivers coal to the Ukrainian energy sector. We could, and maybe in this situation we need to, take a decision about halting deliveries of coal by our commercial organizations which deliver coal to Ukrainian power stations."
(Reporting by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Jason Bush (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=jason.bush&))





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