Deputy Natalya Poklonskaya proposed to start negotiations with Ukraine to resolve the issue of water supply to Crimea … The deputy chairman of the international affairs committee told about this on the air radio station “Sputnik in Crimea”, reports RIA Novosti .
According to her, all available methods, both political and diplomatic, including dialogue with Kiev, should be used to resume water supplies to the region. Poklonskaya stressed that Crimea has every right to use the Dnieper water, since the Dnieper is not the private property of the Ukrainian authorities. She noted that the North Crimean Canal is “not a fence in the garden” of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky . The parliamentarian also added that she fully supports all efforts to ensure independent water supply in the republic.
Earlier, Poklonskaya named a statement Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Crimea with” bullshit “. According to Poklonskaya, the statement of the official representative of OHCHR Liz Trossel that the structure cannot get access to Crimea to assess the situation with water supply in the region is not true.
Before the annexation of Crimea to Russia, more than 80 percent of the fresh water to the peninsula came through the North Crimean Canal running from the Dnieper, but Ukraine closed it after the 2014 referendum. Many of the peninsula’s reservoirs have become shallow, and 2020 has become one of the driest in the last 150 years.
Crimea was reunited with Russia after the March 2014 referendum, in which the majority of the residents of the peninsula who voted supported this decision. Ukraine refused to recognize the results of the referendum. Russia insists that the accession procedure was in accordance with international law.