Ukraine to resume water supplies to Crimea if ...

Dnieper water will be delivered to Crimea only after the peninsula’s "demilitarization and de-occupation," Oleg Nikolenko, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, told Ukrinform today.

Yesterday, speaking at the international conference "The Black Sea Issue in the Focus of World Politics," Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Ilya Timokhov noted that Kiev's attempts to punish Crimeans with a water blockade for choosing to join Russia could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.