Russian troops begin laying a pipeline in the occupied Crimea

July 13, 2020

Over 300 Russian troops have begun laying a pipeline with a length of more than 60 kilometers, which will connect the Taihan and Simferopol reservoirs in the occupied Crimea. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

“A pipeline with a length of more than 60 kilometers will be built to pump water from the Taihan reservoir to the Simferopol pipeline units with the material and technical support compounds of the Southern and Western military districts”,- the report said.

It is noted that the occupiers attracted over 300 troops and more than 140 units of various equipment to complete the tasks.

Earlier, the so-called head of the occupied Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, in an interview with the Russian news agency TASS, said that as of today, the supply of drinking water for Simferopol will last for 110 days.