The first pumping station (NS-1) of the North Crimean Canal for lifting and pumping water in the village of Pobednoye, Dzhankoy district, Crimea. File photoSIMFEROPOL, Apr 28Water supplies through the North Crimean Canal to Crimea are guaranteed, no one else will allow the resumption of the water blockade of the peninsula, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy chairman of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region, head of the committee for saving the Kherson region «For Peace and Order» Kirill Stremousov. «Kherson region is ready and will be guaranteed to ensure the supply of water to Crimea through the North Crimean Canal, which was jointly built by the hands of our grandfathers. We will not allow a repetition of the water blockade of Crimea,» Stremousov said. According to him, local officials and radicals who gave orders and involved in the blockades of the Crimean peninsula. Ukraine provided up to 85 percent of the needs of the Crimea in 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. The preliminary amount of damage caused by the water blockade is estimated at 1.47 trillion rubles. It was possible to remove it after the start of the Russian special operation. Water began to flow to the peninsula at the end of February. The problem of water shortage in Crimea, according to the authorities, is no longer relevant. on the demilitarization of Ukraine, they took control of the entire Kherson region in the south of the country. Later, Russian broadcasting was launched here, and the population began to use Russian rubles more widely in settlements. Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine on February 24. As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
