He says the water will not be supplied to “the occupation forces, to meet military bases’ needs.” Ukraine’s PM has again raised the issue of water supplies to Crimea
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal does not rule out the possibility of supplying drinking water from the mainland of Ukraine to Russia-occupied Crimea in the event of, as he put it, a “humanitarian disaster” on the peninsula.
“If necessary to provide people with water, if a humanitarian disaster, of course, Ukraine somewhere in Crimea or elsewhere, will provide Ukrainians with water and everything they need, medicines, food and so on,” Shmyhal said in an interview for Radio Svoboda’s Ukrainian service.
Yet, he added, Ukraine will not supply water to “the occupation forces, for the needs of military bases.” “It’s impossible,” he said. According to him, it is technically impossible at the moment to supply water from the Dnipro River to Russia-occupied Crimea.
“The Crimean Canal is closed, and journalists have conducted more than one investigation that it is impossible today to supply water to Crimea using the existing infrastructure. It is necessary to invest funds, to repair this infrastructure,” he said. Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv on June 11, Shmyhal said that the issue of resuming the supply of fresh water to Crimea was not on the Ukrainian agenda.
Prior to that, on March 5, Shmyhal claimed that his Cabinet “would not cut off the water for Ukrainians in Crimea” and said that the failure to supply water “would lead to a humanitarian disaster.
” Later, he wrote on Facebook that the Ukrainian authorities could not supply water to Crimea until the end of the peninsula’s occupation, because “it is technically impossible to split water for households and for [Russia’s] military bases.”
(C)UNIAN 2020
F*ck the rabbit………………………..As member of the Servant of the Russian People Party aka Yanukovych regime 2.0 on steroids, no surprise, fool.
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Road repairs started under Poroshenko, Zenny did nothing…………… exchange of prisoners started under Poroshenko, Zenny did nothing…Land reform started under Poroshenko. Zenny did nothing, only passing the law.
What started you, Zenny the Clown? I will tell you: nothing, nada, rien, nichts, niks.
I can very well imagine the spineless mollusks in the West crying crocodile tears over this “humanitarian disaster” and applying pressure on Kyiv to resume the supply of water to the thieves. I hope that this will not happen! Mafia land stole the peninsula and now it must live with the semi-desert. It is THEIR problem. Mafia land could invest in desalination plants instead of their ludicrous super-duper-hyper-diaper weapons at every turn and in their dick-tator friends in Syria, Libya and Venezuela!