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Expert of the Crimean Reintegration Association Boris Babin noted that Russia does not hide one of the real goals of its aggression against Ukraine. Namely, the resumption of water supplies to Crimea through the North Crimean Canal.
According to him, starting from 2015, the Russian occupier stated that it was the lack of water in the canal that led to a “water crisis” in Crimea.
“Although in fact the main factors were the overpopulation of the peninsula by Russian troops and colonialists, as well as the negligence of the water management of the occupiers,” said Boris Babin.
He said that his Association repeatedly pointed out the deterioration of the peninsula's water distribution systems during the years of occupation and corruption schemes in the so-called “republican enterprise” “Water of Crimea” .
A month after the aggressor established illegal control over the canal in the Kherson region, Russian propaganda reports about the alleged launch of a pumping station near Dzhankoy and about the “complete filling” of the canal, Boris Babin said.
“At the same time, a winter rich in precipitation led , as of March 2022, to the maximum filling of the Crimean surface runoff reservoirs,” Babin added.
Despite this, he noted that in Simferopol and certain other settlements of the peninsula – occupants water supply schedules, which is due precisely to accidents of worn-out equipment. The city of Evpatoria, due to a break in the main water supply near the Coastal, since March 28, no water supply at all.
“Consequently, neither favorable weather nor the “breakthrough” of the North Crimean Canal led to overcoming the “water crisis” on the occupied peninsula by the aggressor, which has completely different reasons,” Babin summed up.
