Water supply to Crimea is quite an expensive enterprise for the Russian Federation – Korynevych

The Office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea commented on the invaders’ statement on the “water blockade”, noting that in fact, the water supply to Crimea is a rather expensive undertaking for the Russian Federation. Therefore, the Russian Federation is trying to persuade Ukraine to restore water supply. The press service of the department reported about this.

“Water supply to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is a rather expensive enterprise for the Russian Federation as an occupying state. That is why it is trying and will continue to try to persuade Ukraine to restore water supply to the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimean peninsula using direct pressure and pressure on international partners. However, Ukraine should not solve the problems that arise before the occupying state after six years of temporary occupation of a part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine”,- the message said.

The deprtment noted that the provisions of international treaties in the field of human rights protection cited by the Russian side do not relate to the right to water and obligations to supply water or other resources, but relate to the provision of other human rights.

“In addition, the situation is absolutely unacceptable when an occupying state speaks of a possible violation of the right to life and the use of torture, under whose effective control dozens of murders, enforced disappearances, torture of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol took place,”- emphasized the press service.

We remind that earlier the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia claims that Kyiv violated its human rights obligations, enshrined in international documents on water for Crimea. This is emphasized in the statement of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mariya Zakharova, who called the cessation of the supply of Dnieper water to the peninsula a “water blockade”.