SevastopolSIMFEROPOL, Feb 25First Vice Speaker of the Crimean Parliament Yefim Fiks thanked the Russian Armed Forces for breaking the water blockade of the peninsula. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the withdrawal of Russian troops to Kherson made it possible to unblock the North Crimean Canal and restore water supply to the Crimean peninsula “Thanks to the actions of the Russian armed forces and the decisions made by the President of the Russian Federation, the water blockade of Crimea has been broken,” said RIA Novosti Fix. According to him, the resumption of the work of the North Crimean Canal is a restoration of justice. Ukraine, but the Soviet Union,» the vice-speaker emphasized. Ukraine provided up to 85% of Crimea's needs for fresh water through the North Crimean Canal coming from the Dnieper. However, after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, the supply of water through the canal to the republic was completely stopped unilaterally. According to the estimates of the working group, the preliminary amount of damage caused by the water blockade is 1.47 trillion rubles. Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that he had decided on a special military operation against Ukraine. In a televised address to the Russians, he said that the circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help.» Putin said that the entire responsibility for the bloodshed would be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine, and called on the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home. attacks on the cities of Ukraine. According to the agency, military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields, aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are disabled by high-precision weapons. The ministry clarified that nothing threatens the civilian population.
