Morning Star.png Russia Warns Kiev It Will Cut Off Gas James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 25 November 2015 Russia's Energy Ministry threatened to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine yesterday as Kiev's fascist militias delayed restoring power to blacked-out Crimea. Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that gas would be cut off "today or tomorrow" because the Kiev government has failed to pay its bills. Russia resumed gas deliveries to Ukraine less than two months ago after the two countries signed a deal for supplies until next spring. Mr Novak said that, since then, Kiev had only made one of its agreed pre-payments. He charged that electricity pylons that were blown up by the fascist Right Sector militia - a pivotal force in 2014's violent overthrow of the government - and Crimean Tatar separatists were not being repaired for "political reasons." "There is practically no repair work going on in Ukraine", Mr Novak told radio reporters. "Extremists don't allow workers to repair the damaged power stations. At the same time, it is strange that the authorities in Ukraine cannot provide access to the energy facilities." Some 1.9 million Crimeans have been left without electricity since Saturday's attack, with hospitals and other key services relying on emergency power supplies. The minister said 300 diesel generators were being sent to the peninsula to make up for the shortfall, with local power plants supplying only 35 to 40 per cent of the region's requirements. Moscow is also building a "power bridge" to Crimea, to which it has no land route. The peninsula voted overwhelmingly to reunite with Russia following last year's coup in Ukraine. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-588f-Ukraine-Russia-warns-Kiev-it-will -cut-off-gas#.VlUs7HYrK00> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-588f-Ukraine-Russia-warns-Kiev-it-will- cut-off-gas#.VlUs7HYrK00 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
