Starting on the evening of January 10, residents of several villages in the Baydar Valley of occupied Sevastopol, namely Orline (Baydar), Goncharne (Varnaut), and Shyroke (Buyuk Muskomya), reported flooded homes on social media.
Videos posted by residents showed streets turning into rivers, the few storm drains
instantly clogged, and “streams of water opened gates and filled yards and gardens.”For some reason”, the occupiers “officially” refused to comment on the situation.
As we previously reported, flooding has become commonplace in the Baydar Valley since 2021, when stormwater drainage systems fell into disrepair and the local rivers and streams became heavily littered with construction and household waste.
After the 2024 flood, when the occupiers’ untimely release of water from the Chernorechenske Reservoir led to widespread flooding in the valley’s settlements, the “authorities” promised to “clear the riverbeds.”
Throughout 2025, the occupiers claimed that the fake “Department of natural resources and ecology” had allegedly “signed a contract to restore the capacity of the Chorna River and its tributaries, the Sukha and Baydarka,” which allegedly resulted in a “massive clearing” of such “large riverbed part”, as 5.6 kilometers.
18 million rubles were written off through the Simferopol-based structure “Spetsstroyug,” registered to Chelyabinsk-based businessmen Dmitry and Larisa Glazyrins, and another 3 million rubles were written off through the Krasnodar firm “Consortium,” owned by Andrey Steblovsky. Now the residents of the Baydar Valley have fully experienced the consequences of these scams.
