SIMFEROPOL - The suspension of operations of defense industry enterprises in Crimea to save power during a blackout in the region has significantly disrupted the entire production process, says Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
“This is a serious disruption of the entire production technology in our work. This needs to be urgently rectified,” Rogozin said at a conference in Simferopol on Saturday.
Crimea-based defense enterprises became part of the Russian system relatively recently, they are now in the process of establishing contacts with potential clients, and therefore this situation “has made them very vulnerable,” he said.
Rogozin called on the administrations of Crimea and Sevastopol to calculate the damages caused by the blackout as soon as possible and present their estimates to the federal government so that it could consider the payment of compensation.
Rogozin also suggested that Crimean defense enterprises could operate at nighttime for the time being, when power consumption by private households is the lowest.
