Ukraine’s policy to deprive the residents of Crimea of water is an attempt at genocide, according to Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE, who blasted Kiev’s long-term blockade of a vital canal to the peninsula.
In 2014, the Ukrainian government constructed a makeshift dam on the North Crimean Canal, which previously provided 85 percent of the local water supply. It connected the region to the River Dnieper, the fourth-longest river in Europe.
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