The State Council of the Republic of Crimea has begun preparing a claim for damage from the energy blockade of Crimea

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The organizational meeting of the working group of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea on the issue of preparing materials for a statement of claim for compensation for damage caused in connection with the organization of the energy blockade of Crimea by the Ukrainian authorities was chaired by the first vice-speaker of the Crimean parliament, Efim Fiks, with the participation of representatives of the relevant ministries and departments of the Republic.

Opening the meeting, Efim Fiks outlined the need to determine the first steps to collect documents to establish the amount of damage from the energy blockade, which forced a complete reformatting of the electricity supply system to the republic, as a result of which huge material and financial costs were incurred.

Everyone remembers when doctors performed operations without electricity, trolleybuses did not run, electricity was cut off in the homes of Crimean residents… Now we must all restore justice together and punish all the scoundrels involved in the energy blockadesaid the first deputy chairman of the Crimean parliament.

On the organization and conduct of work prior to the initiation of legal proceedings for the recovery of losses (real damage, lost profits) in favor of the budget of the Republic of Crimea, legal adviser of the Crimean branch of the Russian State University of Justice Irina Agasheva, having determined the range of factual circumstances and the assessment of the legal facts that formed the basis of the blockade. In addition, she emphasized the need to conduct an analysis, specify the amount of damage, confirm the amount of property damage caused to the republic, as well as carry out an economically sound and documented calculation of the actual damage caused as a result of the energy blockade in the areas of activity of the relevant ministries, departments, and organizations.

Let us recall that in November 2015, Crimea faced an unprecedented phenomenon in modern history: a group of extremists supported by the Ukrainian authorities, by blowing up power line supports in the Kherson region, left the entire peninsula without electricity.

The authorities of Crimea and Sevastopol have introduced a state of emergency. All social facilities were switched to backup power sources, schools and kindergartens went on forced holidays. For several months, Crimeans were forced to literally survive, content with short-term switching on of the lights, and they were able to completely overcome the emergency introduced due to energy shortages only after six months.

In December 2015, the first and second lines of the Crimea-Kuban energy bridge began operating, connecting the Crimean energy system with the Unified Energy System of the South — the unified energy system of Russia, and by May 2016, 2 more lines of the energy bridge were launched. Thus, the Crimean energy system was physically connected to the Russian Unified Energy System.

On May 18, the state of emergency was lifted.

At the same time, it was decided to build a thermal power plant on the peninsula in order to make the Crimean energy system as independent as possible. They were built around the clock and in record time — two years. In 2019, the first two thermal power plants were launched on the peninsula — Balaklavskaya in Sevastopol and Tavricheskaya in Simferopol. They became key elements of the new energy system of Crimea. As a result, by 2020, the peninsula was 82% self-sufficient in energy, and the missing capacity was supplied from the Rostov NPP along three lines of the Crimea-Kuban energy bridge.

In October 2022, Crimea even began supplying electricity to the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

There are six solar power plants and six wind power plants on the peninsula. Together they provide up to 5% of all electricity generation for Crimea — more than in any other region of Russia.

Photos and materials: press service of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea.

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