“If we give water to the Crimea in order to have some great advantage in the negotiations about the Donbas, my personal opinion is that I would consider it a sufficient compromise,” the chairman of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, David Arakhamia, said on Feb. 11. But after the statement caused a public outcry, he apologized for his words.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Hromadske: Should Ukraine be selling water to occupied Crimea?
A picture taken in the Crimea's Kirovsky region on April 27, 2014, shows a man pomping out water from the nearly empty Northern Crimean Canal, which supplies the peninsula's water.
