The North Crimean Canal no longer fills with water
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The head of the Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye region, Andrey Siguta, said that water from the Kakhovka reservoir no longer flows into the North Crimean Canal. The water level has already dropped a meter below the fence level. Andriy Siguta also noted that the Kakhovka reservoir has almost completely dried up in the Zaporozhye region, leaving a small amount of water only in the part of the reservoir in the Kherson region, where the mouth of the North Crimean Canal is located. The Dnieper and Konka rivers returned to their former channels.
In 2014, Ukraine stopped supplying water to Crimea through the North Crimean Canal, which provided 90% of the peninsula’s needs. For eight years, residents and enterprises of Crimea received water only from local sources. However, in February 2022, the Russian military unblocked the canal, and water began to flow back to the peninsula.
However, on the night of June 6, the upper part of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was destroyed, as a result of which there was an uncontrolled discharge of water from the Kakhovka reservoir and flooding of the regions of the Kherson region downstream of the Dnieper. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the station was undermined by the Kyiv regime due to the weakening of its positions in the Kherson direction and the transfer of troops to the offensive area. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov believes that one of the goals of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was to cut off the water supply to Crimea
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