The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office were involved in the consideration of the case of the energy blockade of Crimea

The court involved the prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Crimea and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation as a third party, — Yuri Shturtsev, a lawyer from the Public Chamber representing her interests in court, told reporters.

The prosecutor’s office has been brought in to assess whether harm was caused to the life and health of Crimeans as a result of the blockade. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was brought in to provide an opinion on the jurisdiction to consider the claim.

Public Chamber of Crimea filed claim March 29, 2024. The chamber reported that the defendants would be the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine and the private joint-stock company National Energy Company Ukrenergo.

About Crimea’s claims against Ukraine

Previously, enterprises of the Republic of Crimea submitted The regional Arbitration Court filed several claims against the Ukrainian authorities for compensation for damage caused by the water blockade of the peninsula. The amount of claims amounts to more than 2.5 trillion rubles. Then regional authorities filed and won a lawsuit against the energy blockade in the amount of more than 3.15 trillion rubles. The defendants are the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine and the national energy company Ukrenergo.

In addition, the authorities of the Republic of Crimea will calculate the amount of damage and lost profits during their stay in Ukraine and will also file a corresponding claim. How noted Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov, we can talk about tens of trillions of rubles.

In May 2014, after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, Ukraine unilaterally cut off water from the Kherson region via the North Crimean Canal, which provided up to 90% of the peninsula’s needs. In addition, in November 2015, electricity supplies to the peninsula were completely stopped. A state of emergency was in effect in the region until May 2016, and rolling consumer blackouts were used. Kyiv also cut off food supplies, banks stopped working, and transport links with the peninsula were disrupted. The situation improved with the launch of an energy bridge from Kuban across the Kerch Strait with a capacity of 400 MW. Then new networks were built, power units of the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant in Sevastopol and the Tavricheskaya Thermal Power Plant in Simferopol were launched.

source: TASS