No formal or informal negotiations on this issue are currently being held.
Ukraine will not supply water to Russia-occupied Crimea amid the Russian occupation of the peninsula.
This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksiy Reznikov at the Special Kyiv Security Forum, the RBC Ukraine news agency reported.
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According to him, neither formal nor informal negotiations on this issue are currently being held.
He stresses problems with water in Crimea are related with the increased militarization of the occupied peninsula, which entails an increase in water consumption for military purposes.
He reiterated it is entirely the occupying state that is responsible for providing water in the occupied territory.
"Therefore, questions and stories told by the Russian Federation that something is not being resolved there, and that the Ukrainian side should decide are null and of no effect. Today they are responsible for satisfying any humanitarian need, including the water supply," he said.