Auslander posted this sitrep in our comment section. I have reposted it here for all to read. Part of the payment for the transport fees was the high quality coal found only in Donbas within ukeland. Uke heating and electric generating plants are designed for specifically this coal and nothing else. The coal was shipped from Novorossiya to Rostov, then shipped north and west where it entered ukeland.
At this time, roughly As a result of the termination of electric power to Krim Novorossiya has halted shipments of coal to the ukes. Russia has halted the shipment of natural gas to the ukes, supposedly on the grounds that the ukes have not done their monthy prepay deal.
The first part of the power supply system to Krimea from Krasnodar Krai, directly east of Kerch on the east coast of Krimea and across the straights, will go in operation on or about 20 December. Krimea electric production totals, including Sevastopol, approximately megawatts.
Obviously the peninsula will be short a substantial part of the required power. At this time massive gas turbine generators are being brought to Krim and the 6 in Sevastopol as part of the partially completed renovation of the power system are on line now. Sevastopol is on serious electric rationing. The six power districts of the city proper are supposedly on a rotating and announced schedule for power daily. The actual times of supply have no correlation in regards to the announced times and the times are announced on TV by a scroll across the bottom of the screen every 15 minutes but only on Channel 1, a local channel.
Today was a harbinger of things to come, a high of 10 with a damp and foggy air. No electric means no heat for many in this city, especially the numerous flats buildings which generally rely on one large heating plant for a good number of buildings, the heat being by radiator. No electric means no pumps to circulate the hot water. The populace is generally calm so far. Food is plentiful. Petrol is available but two of the three stations on northside do not have the required by law generators to run the pumps in a power outage.
