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SIMFEROPOL - Ukraine has again stopped all electricity supplies to Crimea unilaterally and without warning, Crimean Minister of Fuel and Energy Sergei Yegorov told Interfax.

“At 1.50 p.m. (Moscow time) Ukraine fully stopped supplies. An instruction has been given to Crimea to switch to backup electricity sources,” Yegorov said.