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In June 2019, the former permanent representative of the President of Ukraine to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Boris Babin, said that the invaders had offered bribes to restore the water supply to Crimea.
In September, Sergei Shevchenko, head of the Northern Crimean Canal, said it was technically impossible to supply water from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.
director Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, People’s Deputy of the “Servant of the People” Yuri Aristov told reporters of the program “Schema” (“Radio Svoboda”), aired on January 30, 2020, which The Ukrainian authorities were considering the idea of selling water to Crimea. The representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea, Anton Korinevich, said in response that Ukraine does not intend to resume supplying water to Crimea until the peninsula is vacated.
On August 7, the Prime Minister of Ukraine announced that the supply of fresh water from the mainland of Ukraine to annexed Crimea is only possible in the event of a humanitarian disaster on the peninsula.
On September 1, Poklonskaya said that UN structures recognized her status as a Russian deputy from Crimea and offered cooperation to provide additional information on the peninsula’s residents’ access to safe drinking water. Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova called the statement Poklonskaya manipulative.
On September 7, the occupants announced that due to water shortages in occupied Simferopol, part of the city will receive water for three hours in the morning and in the evening.
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