The North Crimean Canal in the Armenian District of the Republic of Crimea. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, March 17 Crimean Tatars promise a substantial reward to those who can detain and deliver to Crimea the organizers of the blockade of the peninsula, including the water blockade, Eyvaz Umerov, head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars, told RIA Novosti .
"Activists of the Crimean Tatars opened a fundraiser to catch the organizers of the transport, food, energy and water blockade of the peninsula. Those servicemen who can detain and deliver Mustafa Dzhemilev and Lenur Islyamov to the tribunal of the Crimean Tatar people in Crimea will receive a substantial reward", Umerov said.
At the same time, according to him, the person of another organizer of the blockade, the leader of the extremist organization «Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people» * Refat Chubarov, was decided to be ignored. on the path of correction. For infringement on the honor and dignity of the Crimean Tatars, for causing harm by blockades of the Crimea and sabotage activities of Dzhemilev and Islyamov, they will be tried first of all at the people's tribunal. expulsion and public flogging, with their subsequent transfer to the hands of Russian justice,» Umerov concluded.Aksenov told how to permanently solve the problem of water shortage in CrimeaDzhemilev, Islyamov and Chubarov left the Crimea after the reunification of the peninsula with Russia. They repeatedly declared their involvement in organizing a number of blockades of the peninsula. Ukraine provided up to 85 percent of Crimea's needs for fresh water through the North Crimean Canal coming from the Dnieper. However, after the reunification of the peninsula with Russia in 2014, the water supply 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. The Ministry of Defense managed to unblock this channel and restore the possibility of supplying Dnieper water to the peninsula. Now specialists are working to clean up the channel and restore the infrastructure of hydraulic structures.
In Crimea, they plan to return to rice productionRussia on February 24 launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazification of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian army, units of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive.* An extremist organization banned on the territory of Russia «