In November, the aggressor-controlled “Crimean media” stated, with reference to the infamous “director” of the Simferopol “Water Technologies” Anatoly Kopachevski and the “head of the department” at the illegal “Crimean Federal University” Ilya Nikolenko, that by the end of last month “the volume of reservoirs in Crimea decreased by eight million cubic meters”, and that further “a decrease in the water level in reservoirs is expected on the peninsula, which may lead to drought.”
The indicated October filling of 116 million cubic meters is lower than last year’s two, but at the same time it is equal to the 2021 figure, and exceeds the figure for the drought-ridden 2020.
The collaborators are clearly broadcasting this “alarming news” for a reason, since the deputy chairman of the aggressor government, Dmitry Patrushev, announced the “consideration of the application” of the Crimean gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov for 22 billion rubles for the construction of two new reservoirs, near Yalta and Alushta.
An understanding of the depth of this scam arises if we recall another multi-billion project that we have written about many times – this is the completion and launch of the Yalta hydrotunnel, which should supply water to the southern coast of Crimea from the most full-flowing reservoirs of the Bakhchisarai district.
Earlier, we wrote that the occupiers completed drilling the second line of the seven-kilometer hydrotunnel under Ai-Petri in Crimea by the end of 2023 and promised its full commissioning in the spring of 2024.
Among other things, the occupiers’ illegal “authorities” planned to use the tunnel to increase the water supply to the Yalta area for the Russian occupiers’ military bases.
The contractor for the construction of this illegal hydrotunnel was the Russian “Tonnelgeostroy”, the company “Remont i Stroitelstvo Setei “PR I SS””, previously involved in the construction of the “Nord Stream” facilities, was also involved in the construction of the water pipeline.
For the illegal work, the occupiers used an electric train for tunnel structures manufactured by the French corporation C.S.M. BESSAC. This case was examined by the European External Action Service (EEAS) and transferred for investigation to the national authorities of France, but judging by last year’s statements by the occupiers, this did not prevent the completion of the structure.
But in 2024, there are no new statements from occupied Crimea about the launch of the Yalta hydrotunnel, instead of which we see the scam described above with “two new reservoirs”, where 22 billion is clearly only the “starting price”.
