Deputy State Duma Natalya Poklonskaya named the statement Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for Crimea with” bullshit “. The deputy chairman of the international affairs committee told about this on the air radio station “Sputnik in Crimea”, reports RIA Novosti .
According to Poklonskaya, the statement of the official representative of the OHCHR Liz Trossel that the structure cannot get access to Crimea to assess the situation with water supply in the region is not true. The parliamentarian stressed that there are no barriers to this. “We are open and accessible,” she added.
Earlier chapter MFA Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba promised to disrupt the desalination project for Crimea. This is how he reacted to the message of the head of the region Sergey Aksenov about attracting an international company to implement appropriate technologies. Kuleba said that Ukraine will find this company and will by all means impede its work.
Before the annexation of Crimea to Russia, more than 80 percent of the fresh water to the peninsula came through the North Crimean Canal running from the Dnieper, but Ukraine closed it after the 2014 referendum. Many of the peninsula’s reservoirs have become shallow, and 2020 has become one of the driest in the last 150 years.
Crimea was reunited with Russia after the March 2014 referendum, in which the majority of the residents of the peninsula who voted supported this decision. Ukraine refused to recognize the results of the referendum. Russia insists that the accession procedure was in accordance with international law.