Have no fear, Putin will control all of Ukraine, with nary a peep from our incompetent, embarrassing, wimp of a president.
No water, no electricity for Crimea will be answered by no nat gas for the rest of the Ukraine and less forbearance for existing debts.
It’s not like the MidEast, where water and electricity to Gaza is paid for by rocket fire.
Just another excuse for invasion being served up to the Russians on a silver platter by the current feckless leaders of the Ukraine.
The article is a week old so apparently they didn’t cut the electricity and water to the Crimea.
It was my understanding that the creation of electricity and the use of Natural gas and Oil was DESTROYING the Planet according to Europe and their member nations. So Why would any of this matter?? SHUT IT ALL DOWN NOW. Live the way you Preach to The rest of the world.
Is this the same battalion from Muslim Chechnya that Putin used for the ethnic cleansing of Georgian Christians in S. Ossetia?
They had a bridge to mainland Russia as far as 1944. I think it is not hard to rebuild.
The article stated ... “Pro-Moscow officials in Crimea, who favor secession from Ukraine, have said they will seize all utilities and assets owned by the Kiev-based Ukrainian government if the referendum goes as expected. But Crimea’s electricity, freshwater and natural gas all flows in from the province of Kherson, where leaders warn they will shut everything off if the referendum they say is illegitimate, goes forward.”
It’s not very often you can read an article stating that something may happen - and - have the answer as to whether it did or not. But since this article is about a week old - we already know that they did not do this.
Yeah, and when Auntie po’ed Master-Blaster ... “embargo on!” Ukraine better hope for a real mild Spring if they want to play that game with their energy supplier.
Well, that settles it, Ukraine is now lost to Putin.