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The Russian army brought special equipment and pumped water from the Biyuk-Karasu river. As a result, the river below the earthen dam was practically without water.
A unit of Russian troops from the pipeline blocked the Biyuk-Karasu river below the Belogorsk reservoir with an earth dam. The military is pumping water for the needs of occupied Simferopol, according to material from the Krym.Realii publication.
At the workplace, the military set up a tent camp and brought equipment. Special vehicles with pumps pump water into the installed pipes, the newspaper reported.
As a result of these actions, the Biyuk-Karasu River below the earthen dam ran out of water.
A local activist, on condition of anonymity, explained to the Krym.Realii publication that the water from the Belogorsk reservoir through Biyuk-Karasu provided not only Feodosia and Sudak, but also villages and large objects found in the riverbed. from the river (the Tavrida art forum and the Belogorskaya public address system). greenhouse).
The Simferopol, Simferopol and Bakhchisarai districts were transferred to a limited water supply program in late August. According to Kommersant, 20% of the water reserves remain in the reservoirs that feed Simferopol.
Ukraine provided through the Northern Crimean Canal up to 85% of Crimea’s freshwater needs. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the spring of 2014, Kiev stopped supplying the peninsula with water. In April 2017, the Crimean authorities assured that they had managed to completely overcome this problem, but, as experts told the Krym.Realii newspaper, this information does not correspond to reality. According to media reports, no alternative to the Dnieper water supply has yet been found in Crimea, except large-scale pumping of groundwater.
In June 2019, the former permanent representative of the President of Ukraine to the ARC 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 the annexed Crimea is only possible in the event of a humanitarian disaster on the peninsula.
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