Crimea faces uncertain future without Ukraine

Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine, but Crimea relies on Kiev for energy and other vital supplies.

The Russian takeover of Crimea has been carried out in only a matter of weeks, but economic ties between the peninsula and mainland Ukraine stretch back many decades.

The peninsula relies on Ukraine for energy and other vital supplies. So how it will now fare economically?

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips reports from Kerch in the Crimea.

Source: Al Jazeera