Crimea blockade activists agree to partial power supply to Crimea

Member of Parliament from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov announces that participants in the blockade of Crimea have allowed the partial resumption of the power supply to the peninsula via the 220 kV Kakhovka-Titan transmission line.

"Participants in the blockade agree with the position that the power supply could be restored via the Kakhovka-Titan line, taking into consideration our country's energy security and other spheres," Chubarov said.

"This is the only [transmission] line with the power capacity limited to 220-250 megawatts. The others' capacity could be increased to 550 megawatts," he said.

"There are four transmission lines supplying the power to Crimea: Kakhovka-Titan, Kakhovka-Dzhankoi, Kakhovka-Ostrovska, and Melitopol-Dzhankoi. All of them are idle now. Only the Kakhovka-Titan line has been repaired with our consent," he said.

He also reported a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had been held on the power supply to Crimea.