On March 24, the aggressor-controlled “Crimean media” posted an “interview” with the criminal “head of the administration of the Melitopol district” from the Russian invaders, Andrei Siguta, in which, through strained “optimism”, announcements of a water crisis come through.
And although the collaborator claims that allegedly “agrarians are accustomed to any conditions”, he acknowledges “problems … of water supply,” saying about the canals in the occupied territory that allegedly “irrigation work is also underway so that it will work this season”.
However, as Siguta “reassuringly promises” right away, “if this does not happen, crops that do not require artificial irrigation will be sown,” and indeed, allegedly, “there is an opportunity to give the earth a rest.”
Repeating the mantra several times that “even if there is no irrigation this year, nothing critical … will happen,” Siguta said that the collaborators “are waiting for the arrival of specialists who will deal with water exploration and drilling of wells.”
At the same time, as Siguta “vaguely” stated, the Melitopol collaborators “together with the Sevastopol representative made … the main emphasis on water supply”, and allegedly with the help of the “emergency team” from the occupied Sevastopol “restored distribution nodes in those places where for a long time entrepreneurs … took their own water”.
In fact, this means that Melitopol collaborators not only stopped the operation of reclamation systems in the south of the Zaporizhzha Region, they also establish criminal schemes for making money on water use together with their Sevastopol “colleagues”.
Thus, the occupiers’ failures and scams the field of water use and distribution, obviously, extend not only to the Crimea, but also to the territories of the mainland south of Ukraine, seized by the aggressor.
