North Crimean Canal. File photoSIMFEROPOL, Jan 27Crimea will demand to recover the damage caused by the water blockade from three legal entities of Ukraine, Sergey Trofimov, head of the committee on legislation of the State Council of Crimea, deputy head of the working group of the regional parliament on assessing the consequences of the blockade, told RIA Novosti. Earlier, the first vice speaker of the Crimean parliament, Yefim Fiks, said that Crimea is completing the preparation of the first lawsuit against Ukraine on the water blockade, it is planned that the lawsuit will be filed at the end of February. «There are specific ministries, departments and enterprises whose actions or inaction caused material damage. We are talking about three legal entities that were responsible for filing water to Crimea through the North Crimean Canal. The lawsuit will be filed against the state of Ukraine represented by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, the State Agency for Water Resources of Ukraine and the North Crimean Canal Administration,» Trofimov told RIA Novosti. will be submitted from seven Crimean ministries and state Komi tetov. Previously, Ukraine provided up to 85% 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. According to the estimates of the working group, the preliminary amount of damage caused by the water blockade is 1.47 trillion rubles. water blockade by UkraineCrimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which 96.77% of Crimean voters and 95.6% of Sevastopol residents voted for joining Russia. Ukraine and many Western countries still consider Crimea their own, but temporarily occupied territory. The Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the inhabitants of Crimea democratically, in full accordance with international law and the UN Charter, voted for reunification with Russia. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Crimea issue is «finally closed».
