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Photo: Andriy Ermak (RBK-Ukraine)
There is enough water for people living in occupied Crimea. The Office of the President of Ukraine is confident that there will be no “war over water”.
This was stated by the head of the Presidency, Andriy Yermak, on the air of the program “VIP with Natalia Moseichuk” on channel “1 + 1”.
He noted that Ukrainians will be intimidated by the 2014 war, including due to the problem of water supply in Crimea.
“No, it will not. This is the kind of manipulation that exists in society,” said the head of the OPU.
In occupied Crimea, there is a serious water shortage problem. Before the Russian occupation, Ukraine provided 85% of the peninsula’s freshwater needs through the Northern Crimean Canal.
After the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the spring of 2014, Kiev stopped the water supply to the peninsula. According to media reports, no alternative to the Dnieper water supply has yet been found in Crimea, except for large-scale pumping of groundwater.
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 the peninsula.
In February, Yermak said that the supply of water to Crimea from the territory of Ukraine was never the subject of negotiations with the Russian Federation.
Earlier, Tamila Tasheva, Deputy Permanent Representative of the President in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, said that Ukraine does not plan to restore water supply and transport links with Crimea until it is completely unoccupied.
