Crimea is facing major water problems; 9 cities will be left without water

Large-scale water supply disruptions have begun on the temporarily occupied Crimean Peninsula. Due to problems with the water supply, residents of nine major cities and three districts may be left without water on July 7.

Local residents are reporting a critical situation that has affected several settlements on the peninsula at once. The causes of the widespread water outages and the timeline for restoring service are currently being determined.

The outages will affect:

• parts of Simferopol,

• Feodosia,

• Sak,

• Armiansk,

• Yani Kapu (Krasnoperekopsk),

• Kerch,

• Yevpatoria,

• Dzhankoy,

• Bilohirsk.

The occupying authorities attribute the disruptions to emergency repair work.

In total, not only city residents but also residents of surrounding villages, as well as those in the Bilohirsk, Kurman, and Dzhankoy districts, will be left without water.

Earlier, the occupying “head of administration” of Saki, Yulia Predibailo, stated that the city was left without water due to a power outage.

At the same time, satellite images captured fires at the “Saki” power substation and the railway station.

Incidentally, since July 1, water supply schedules have been in effect in villages in the south of occupied Crimea. Moreover, water is being delivered by tanker trucks to Yevpatoria.

In the village of Verkhnia Kutuzivka in the Yalta district, water is supplied only from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Previously, similar restrictions were introduced in the village of Luchyste, where water is available on certain streets for only four hours in the evening.

Among the reasons cited for the restrictions are problems with the power supply and a shortage of water in reservoirs.

This was reported with reference to a statement by the occupying entity “Voda Krymu.”

Over the past 24 hours, 273 combat engagements were recorded on the front lines. Ukrainian troops continue to repel the advance of Russian occupation forces, inflicting significant losses on the enemy in terms of personnel, equipment, and military infrastructure.

On the night of July 3, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with two X-59/69 guided air-to-ground missiles and 105 strike and decoy drones. Air defense forces destroyed or intercepted 83 aerial targets.

On the night of July 1, Russian forces launched a massive attack with strike drones on the Dnipropetrovsk region.