Power supplies to Crimea from Ukraine were partially restored Tuesday, Russian and Ukrainian officials said, easing a two-week power outage that left much of the disputed peninsula without electricity. Ukrainian officials turned on one power line early Tuesday out of four that had been brought down by unknown people in late November , cutting off supplies from Ukraine to Crimea, which was annexed by Russia last year. Ukrainian activists, protesting Moscow’s actions on the peninsula, have since blocked engineers from repairing all but one of the power lines. They were still guarding other downed pylons, the government of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson said in a statement. The outage has highlighted Crimea’s reliance on Ukraine following its annexation by Russia . Crimea, home to some two million people, depends on Ukraine for around 80% of its electricity, 85% of its water, and much of its trade. The Russian […]