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The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, is confident that there will be no war with the Russian Federation over water for the annexed Crimea.
There is enough water for the people living in annexed Crimea. This was stated by the head of the Presidency, Andriy Yermak, on the air of the program “VIP with Natalya Moseichuk”, which was broadcast on November 5 on the channel “1 + 1”.
“Let’s be frank: today there is enough water for the people living in Crimea,” Yermak said.
He is sure there will be no “war over water”.
“We have been scared of war since 2014. No, it will not be like that. This is the type 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 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the spring of 2014, Kiev stopped the supply of water 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 annexed peninsula.
Sergei Shevchenko, head of the Crimean North Canal, said it is technically impossible to supply water from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.
The Chairman of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Servant of the People’s People’s Deputy Yuriy Aristov, told reporters on the Scheme (Radio Svoboda) program, broadcast on January 30, 2020, that the Ukrainian authorities were considering the idea to sell 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.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that the supply of fresh water from mainland Ukraine to annexed Crimea is only possible in the event of a humanitarian disaster on the peninsula.
In September it became known that due to lack of water, Crimean “authorities” will forcibly buy Crimean wells and wells.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development announced on October 7 that drawn up “draft plan to ensure a reliable water supply to Crimea and Sevastopol. “
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