Undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by Russian troops will lead to the fact that the occupied Crimea will have problems with access to fresh water.
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The Kakhovka reservoir, from where the North Crimean Canal takes water, has already become very shallow. Subsequently, water will generally cease to flow to the peninsula. This will worsen access to fresh water in the south of the Kherson region and the north of Crimea. This was announced on June 11 by the British Ministry of Defense.
British intelligence believes that the Russian authorities are likely to meet the urgent needs of the population with reservoirs, water restrictions, the drilling of new wells and the delivery of bottled water from Russia.
However, the inhabitants of the occupied territories are facing a sanitary crisis, which may be caused by diseases transmitted through water.
Recall that on the night of June 6, the Russian army blew up the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and blamed Ukraine for this. As a result of the terrorist act, water from the Kakhovka reservoir flooded dozens of settlements, and the Kherson and Nikolaev regions suffered the most.
Source: Racurs
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