After the capture of Kherson, the Russian invaders destroyed a concrete dam on the North Crimean Canal to let water into the occupied Crimea. However, the launch occurred in violation of technological requirements. This was announced by the director of the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mikhail Yatsyuk.

" Despite the violations, despite the fact that this will lead to various negative phenomena, including the destruction of the canal walls, they did it,"

According to him, the Russian Federation is now using the channel " The professor notes that the irrigation system on the territory of the Kherson region was quite extensive, covered about 300 thousand hectares and largely depended on the filling of the North Crimean Canal.

In some areas, the water level has dropped significantly.. "

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The Ukrainian Ecological Inspectorate notes that the Russians are already stealing water from the canal on a significant scale.. The water intake reaches 50 cubic meters per second, and the damage for its unauthorized use is tens of millions of hryvnias per day, namely 32.

6 million. Accordingly, for 125 days of a full-scale war, the Russian Federation has already owed about 4 billion hryvnias.. However, these figures are approximate, since access to hydraulic structures for Ukrainian employees is blocked, and water consumption has to be monitored only with the help of satellite images..

Read more about how the theft of water by the occupiers affects the water supply in Ukraine and Crimea, read in the article by Maria Dyachuk \?