Crimea suffers 90-minute peninsula-wide power outage due to hot weather on Russia's mainland

Crimea suffered a 90-minute peninsula-wide power outage on Friday due to “abnormally high” air temperatures in the Krasnodar region on mainland Russia, which supplies Crimea with its electricity, according the Russia’s Federal Energy Ministry.

Deputy Energy Minister Andrey Cherezov told the news agency Interfax that the power supply to Crimea automatically shut off when the emergency situation was triggered in the Krasnodar region, insisting that there are no problems with the so-called energy bridge that connects Crimea to the Russian mainland’s power grid.

According to weather reporters by Yandex, the air temperature in the Krasnodar region reached 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday.