The Crimea gets all if its potable water from Ukraine through the North Crimean channel. Getting water to the Crimea is a complex operation which requires a large group of specialists tending to the channel 24-7.
Now that the Crimea has been annexed, groups of criminals have been expropriating businesses and beating up or kidnapping their owners while the Russian authorities abstain from interfering.
Finally, the criminals got their hands on the channel. They threw out the Ukrainian engineers who were servicing it. Of course, the water immediately stopped flowing through the channel. As I said, it’s a very complex system, and when there are no engineers to make it work, the people of the Crimea are left without water.
When it was pointed out to the Russian authorities that the channel couldn’t function without the engineers, the response was, “Well, people could always drink bottled water.”
I don’t even want to think what the Russians will say when Ukrainians stop supplying the peninsula with food.
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