An employee (L) speaks with people at an electronics store, with the power turned off inside, in Simferopol, Crimea, November 22, 2015. REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Crimea was left without electricity supplies from Ukraine on Sunday after pylons carrying power lines to the Russia-annexed peninsula were blown up overnight.
It was not immediately clear who had damaged the pylons, but a Russian senator described the move as an "act of terrorism" and implied that Ukrainian nationalists were to blame.
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