The Russian Armed Forces liberated the channel of the North Crimean Canal with a targeted explosion
The Russian military, as a result of a controlled explosion, destroyed a dam on the North Crimean Canal, which blocked the supply of water to the peninsula.
A video of the liberation of the channel was published by the Russian television company Zvezda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The day before, the head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, reported that as a result of the blowing up of a bridge with valves by Ukrainian nationalists, residents of the Kherson region were also left without water, but specialists from the Russian Ministry of Defense would resolve this issue. Crimea will be able to receive water from the canal in 7-10 days.
“We inspected the condition of the North Crimean Canal. The channel is in a disgusting state. The nationalists blew up the bridge and the local residents themselves say that because they blew up the bridge, there will be no water in the Kherson region.
Thanks to our colleagues from the Ministry of Defense, we will now resolve the issue so that both Crimea and the Kherson region have water. We will be patient if we have to wait 7-10 days. Solutions will be found. So Crimea will have water and the Kherson region will also have water,” Aksenov said.
“Our military destroyed the dam built by the Nazis that blocked the North Crimean Canal,” wrote the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, in his Telegram channel. “The work to return Dnieper water to Crimea continues,” he added.
The North Crimean Canal system, built in 1954, pursued two goals - to provide the steppe Crimea with fresh water and to save the mouth of the Dnieper from flooding during ice drift. Every spring, excess water was released into the canal through the system of hydroelectric complexes of the Kakhovka reservoir, distilling up to 1,7 billion cubic meters of water into the bulk reservoirs of Crimea. Of this, 240 million cubic meters were used for drinking purposes. The rest went to fish farming and irrigation.
In 2014, despite agreements with the State Agency for Water Resources of Ukraine, the water supply to the canal was blocked, first by a temporary and then by a permanent dam. The initiators of its construction were the Crimeans who were elected to the Verkhovna Rada - Andrei Senchenko and Refat Chubarov. The latter, moreover, was the first deputy chairman of the illegal Crimean Tatar Majlis. They insisted that a cubic meter of fresh water for Crimea should cost not 16 kopecks, as agreed, but 3 euros per cubic meter.
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