The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry declared a state of war with Russia
Ukraine is not going to resume water supplies through the North Crimean Canal to the peninsula.
This was stated by the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
In a commentary by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on the situation with water supply to the peninsula, it is said that the launch of the canal can only be discussed in the event of the “return” of Crimea. At the same time, the Ukrainian department assigned responsibility for water supply to Russia and considered that the countries were in a state of war.
“Water supply to Crimea from continental Ukraine will be fully restored only after the complete deoccupation of the peninsula. This position is based on the norms of international law. We state the fact that, under the pretext of “humanitarian need,” the Russian occupation authorities in Crimea do not have enough water for the accelerated development of military facilities and enterprises of the military-industrial complex.
It is also obvious that the need for water resources is growing against the background of the colonization of the peninsula - rapid population growth as part of a targeted policy of replacing the demographic composition of Crimea. Such actions by the occupying state constitute a war crime. Their goal is the settlement of Ukrainian territories by citizens of the Russian Federation who are loyal to the expansive policies of their state, and thus consolidating the illegal occupation...
As for the provision of water to the population of the temporarily occupied Crimea, then, as in the case of the provision of the temporarily occupied territory with other resources, food and medical materials, in accordance with the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949, this fully applies to obligations of the occupying state – the Russian Federation,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
Earlier, PolitNavigator reported that materials about Ukraine’s actions on the water blockade of Crimea handed over to the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the UN Michelle Bachelet.
Prior to this, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated that With the water blockade of Crimea, Ukraine is trying to punish the inhabitants of the peninsula for their choice in favor of Russia, which they made in March 2014. Kyiv’s decision to cut off the water supply through the North Crimean Canal, which provided up to 85% of the peninsula’s needs, is a violation of a number of international treaties.
Let us remind you that due to the blockade from Ukraine, as well as the dry summer in Crimea the reservoirs that fed them dried up Simferopol and Bakhchisaray districts, including cities.
To the authorities had to limit the supply water supply and enter schedules, as well as emergency organize water transfer from other sources.
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