The first claim regarding the water blockade of Crimea will be considered by the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The plaintiff will be the Council of Ministers of the Republic.
The materials collected by the working group of the Crimean parliament amount to 152 billion rubles of damage. Dozens of folders with recorded budget losses from the blockade of the North Crimean Canal. And this does not take into account the losses of agricultural producers and village residents forced to leave their homes due to dry wells. This was announced by the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov.
“The lawsuit will be filed in the coming days. The preliminary amount of damage is more than 150 billion rubles, but it will increase because both enterprises and individuals affected by the blockade will file their claims. We bring the first claim to the state of Ukraine represented by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, the State Agency of Water Resources and the North Crimean Canal Authority. In addition, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on ecocide. Crimeans know the perpetrators by name. Now they will not escape punishment,” Aksenov told TASS.
Documents are still being prepared for enterprises, farmers, and private households, since the total damage to the republic’s economy from the blocking of the North Crimean Canal is about 1,4 trillion rubles.
In total, Crimea will file claims against Ukraine for 5 blockades of the peninsula: water, energy, transport, banking and food.
After calculating the damage from the water blockade of the peninsula, the working group of the Crimean parliament will move on to collecting documents on two other blockades - transport and energy.
“There is a very large and unprecedentedly complex work ahead, which concerns calculations due to the energy and transport blockade of the peninsula, the disconnection of Crimea from payment systems, due to which our pensioners were unable to receive legal payments,” explained Parliament Speaker Vladimir Konstantinov. “To these crimes we can add terrorist acts that were being prepared against the republic.”
At the same time, the Crimean authorities insist on bringing to justice 12 organizers of the blockades: ex-People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Senchenko, leaders of the banned Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov, ex-Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Crimea Lenur Islyamov, as well as former Presidents of Ukraine Peter Poroshenko and Leonid Kravchuk, ex-representative of the President of Ukraine in the virtual Autonomous Republic of Crimea Boris Babin, ex-head of the State Water Resources Agency Vasily Stashuk, ex-people's deputies Igor Lutsenko and Vladimir Parasyuk, former head of the Kherson region Andrey Putilov, as well as the ex-head of the administration of Genichesk ( Kherson region) Alexandra Vorobyov.
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation sent materials to European judicial authorities with the aim of recognizing all actions of Ukraine towards Russian citizens living in Crimea as genocide.