In early December, “Crimean media” published an interview with the so-called “chairman of the state committee for water management and land reclamation” of the occupiers, Vladislav Maslyanik, containing both a set of more rants about a “bright day after tomorrow” and interesting semi-confessions.
For example, regarding the “two new reservoirs” previously pompously promised by the “leadership” of Crimea to “revive the resort life” of Yalta and Alushta, Maslyanik clarified that they were talking about the ideas of dams near Alushta’s Generalske (Ulu-Uzen) and Bakhchisarai’s Verkhorichchya (Biya-Sala), but the locations of the dams have not yet been determined, and the projects themselves “will be implemented before 2030”.
It should be noted that, in parallel, as we wrote earlier, in 2025 the collaborators will be mastering the funds for “clearing the channels” of those very Alushta rivers, which will then allegedly “fill the reservoir”, and here the words “ends in the water” regarding fifty “budget” millions are rarely implemented by the collaborators so literally.
Also, from Maslyanik’s “reassurances” regarding the empty Feodosia reservoir, one can understand that the root cause of the force majeure was not the drought, but some breakdowns of the pumps at the water pumping facilities, which the collaborators were unable to fix in time.
However, his promises to send water from Karasubazar (Bilohirsk) to Feodosia through the Frontove reservoir look rather strange, not only considering the interruptions in filling the reservoirs there, but also the fact that Maslyanik simultaneously promised to “loop” the movement of water around Crimea and send that same water from Bilohirsk… to Yevpatoria and Saki by tubes.
Regarding the reclamation structures of the North Crimean Canal, which in most cases were left “out of work” after the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was blown up by the occupiers, the “chairman of the state committee” not only admitted that his “department” does not see them as its priority, since allegedly “now our plans are more aimed at maintaining the hydraulic structures of the reservoirs”, but also hinted that these objects will continue to be a “headache” not for his subordinates, but for farmers, according to the principle “who needs it, worries about it”.
And if in the issue of the channel, where there will obviously be no water for many years, this situation becomes a simple corruption sketch, then in the issue of those same “hydraulic structures”, that is, dams, Maslyanik broadcast announcements with far-reaching dangerous consequences.
Unsuccessfully trying to refute the fact that his “department” does not have a complete picture of the number, role and condition of the Crimean dams, especially locally, Maslyanik put forward a “brilliant idea” of “voluntary-compulsory” transfer of them “for rent” to users of reservoirs and ponds, so that these businessmen not only pay a bribe, but also “are responsible for the condition of the dam”.
Naturally, even if a fish farmer or the owner of a coastal tavern is forced to “rent” such dam, he will probably pay some penny, but he will definitely not repair the dam, and, moreover, even the “legislation” of the occupiers does not provide for such pirouettes.
However, for Maslyanik and his henchmen, only one thing is important here – to find a scapegoat in the form of a “tenant” in case the next dam breaks.
