Ukraine does not have enough money for a capital dam for the water blockade of Crimea
Ukraine does not have enough budget funding to complete the construction of a major dam on the North Crimean Canal, blocking the access of water to the peninsula.
The head of the fake “representative office of the President of Ukraine in Crimea,” Anton Korinevich, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Korinevich assured that the current structure is enough to contain the access of water to Crimea.
“There can be no discussion here. Water will flow to Crimea only after de-occupation... This is clearly stated in the De-occupation and Integration Strategy, no one can have a different opinion, and this is important.
We were there recently, we will be there again next week. Nothing broke there, everything is fine, water is not flowing into Crimea, everything is calm.
The question is that the capital dam at kilometer 107 is 80% ready, but 20% is not completed because there is no appropriate budget funding. This is the state of affairs. We are not the body that is responsible for such things, but we are in communication with all relevant departments, in particular with the channel’s management.
At the moment, this 80% is enough to prevent water from entering Crimea. If suddenly something happens to the man-made dam at the 91st kilometer, the dam at the 107th kilometer should do its job,” Korinevich said.
Earlier PolitNavigator wrote that the dam, built by Kherson farmers from sandbags, is being destroyed, and water from it is seeping into Crimea.
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