As previously reported, the Ministry of Defence has failed to repay the local heating company a 2.3 million EUR debt. That now threatens the city with serious disruption of the heating season. Severomorsk houses the headquarters of Russia’s powerful Northern Fleet. It has about 70 thousand inhabitants.
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According to Regnum, the heating company is currently in bankruptcy negotiations and cuts in the local heating supplies are not excluded.
-Mazut [heavy oil] is not free of charge, and people are not ready to work without payment, deputy leader of the local company says to Regnum. –The debts to the suppliers could force the company to turn of the heating, he adds.
In October the heating company turned off the heating to several barracks and other Northern Fleet buildings for several days
