Crimea ready to resist provocations on referendum day, no grounds to cut power - Crimean PM
SIMFEROPOL. March 14 (Interfax) - The Crimean authorities are certain that no provocations, such as cutting power in the region, will occur, though they have taken all anti-crisis measures necessary, Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov said.
"The grounds to cut power supplies or other sources of power generation for Crimean residents do not exist because no debts to supplying companies exist. Everything is paid for fully and, as of today, in accordance with the Ukrainian law," Aksyonov said at a briefing in Simferopol on Friday.
"Any cuts could be done solely out of spite in order to do something bad to Crimean residents," Aksyonov said.
"We have developed anti-crisis proposals, sites covered with concrete are completely ready and over 900 generators, which will allow us to supply power to people with no disruption, have been purchased," he said.
"Common sense will win in Kyiv and they will not take silly steps because this will not change the situation but will be quite unfair in terms of financial and economic relations," Aksyonov said.