That is according to a latest the U.K. Defense Ministry’s defense intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine.
"The collapse of the Kakhovka Dam on 06 June 2023 has almost certainly severely disrupted the occupied Crimean Peninsula’s primary source of fresh water, the North Crimean Canal. The NCC draws water from the Kakhovka Reservoir, from an inlet higher than the bed of the reservoir. The water level in the reservoir had likely dropped below the level of the inlet by 9 June 2023 and water will soon stop flowing to Crimea," the update reads.
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As the UK defense intelligence states, this will reduce the availability of fresh water in southern Kherson region and northern Crimea.
"However, the Russian authorities will likely meet the immediate water requirements of the population using reservoirs, water rationing, drilling new wells, and delivering bottled water from Russia," the British intelligence estimates.
Defense Express reported earlier on What Could Happen With Water Supply, ZNPP, Crimean Canal Next After Kakhovka HPP Dam Demolition. We also wrote that russian Occupation Forces Inflicted Maximum Damage to the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station.
russian occupying forces blow up Kakhovka dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Dnipro river on the morning of June 6, 2023 commiting another war crime according to the Geneva Convention and triggering humanitarian disaster.
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Representative Stateed There was a Lot of Evidence of Russia's Military-Political Officials Involvement in Kakhovka Dam Demolition as well as stressed, that "this terrorist act is a sign of the panic of the Russians and Putin, and in this way they are trying to complicate the actions of the Ukrainian military."
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