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Shortly after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine built a concrete dam cutting off 85 percent of the peninsula’s water supply. So one of Moscow’s first strategic moves after invading the country was to blow it up.
©The Associated PressHow a Ukrainian dam played a key role in tensions with Russia
Ukraine had constructed the dam on the North Crimea Canal, a Soviet-era conduit that conveyed water from the Dnieper River to both Crimea and the Kherson region of Ukraine.
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Russia has been diverting other water sources to the region since 2017, but those efforts could not compensate for the loss of canal flow, and the peninsula’s agriculture sector had essentially run dry.
“Environmental conflicts are interwoven with these kinds of complex histories,” said Saleem…
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