MOSCOW, Nov. 23 – The emergency situation surrounding power supply to Crimea that occurred after all four electrical transmission lines in Kherson region that supply the peninsula were blown up may continue until the commissioning of the first phase of the power bridge across the Strait of Kerch expected on December 22, Crimean leader Sergei Aksionov said.

"Given the present political situation in Ukraine, which has been shaped over the last few months by those Crimean people participating in the blockade and trying to create a certain destructive situation in Crimea, we believe that we have to prepare for the worst-case scenario, and in particular this one: the Emergency Situation period will last until the moment that the first phase of the power bridge across the Strait of Kerch is commissioned, until December 22. But it is not 100% [certain]," Aksionov said.