MOSCOW – Ukraine has cut off power supply to Crimea for the second time in a week, the Kryminform news agency said on Dec. 26.

“Ukraine fully discontinued power supply to the Republic of Crimea at about 1.50 p.m. (Moscow time) today, for the second time in a week. There is a power outage in every populated locality of the peninsula, including Armiansk which receives electric power via a dead-end high-voltage power transmission line,” says a report posted on the agency website.