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UKRAINE’S coup regime banned food exports to Russian Crimea yesterday, two days after far-right forces cut off electricity to the peninsula.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the blockade was temporary but added that he had ordered the cabinet to prepare a plan for a “concrete” halt of goods and services from Ukraine to Crimea.
Crimea, which voted last year to reunify with Russia, was left with only 30 per cent power after Right Sector fascists and Crimean Tatar militants blew up pylons in the neighbouring Kherson region.
Ukrainian state energy firm Ukrenergo deputy director Yuriy Katich said that the attacks had created a safety crisis at nuclear power stations.
Crimean Chief Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya said the sabotage had “created a threat to lives and wellbeing of some two million people.”
Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Mr Yatsenyuk was guilty of war crimes in Ukraine’s civil conflict.
