Yushchenko orders to resume power supplies to air-defense facilities

Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko charged the Prosecutor General's Office with checking the observation of the law on financing budget protected clauses and ensuring the power supply to air-defense facilities is resumed.

"I would ask you to make sure that power supplies to eight [air-defense] facilities are resumed by the end of this day," he said at the meeting with Defense Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko.

Yekhanurov told Yushchenko that 72 ministry facilities, including eight air-defense facilities, had been cut off from the electricity network due to the debts.

He said that power had been also cut at four military runways.