Crimea's governor says Russia has destroyed a dam built by Ukraine to cut off water to the area.
Russian troops have destroyed a concrete dam built in Ukraine's Kherson Region in 2014 to cut off water to Crimea, the RIA news agency quotes the governor of Russian-annexed Crimea Sergei Aksyonov as saying.
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Ukraine cut off the fresh water supply to Crimea by damming a canal that had supplied 85 per cent of the peninsula's needs before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
The Soviet-era canal was built to channel water from the River Dnieper to arid areas of Ukraine's Kherson region and Crimea.
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