Addendum WRT Crimean economic situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Crimean_Canal, which provided 85% of the peninsula’s water supply, was shut down from 2014 to 2022, reducing land under cultivation 10-fold, which had a severe effect of the region’s economics
The new “authorities” of Crimea de facto refused to pay for water supply of the peninsula—to this day the issue of repayment of debts of water users of Crimea to the Office of the North Crimean Canal in the amount of 1.7 million hryvnia in 2013 remains unclear.
In 2015 Ukrainians proposed a new supply contract in accordance with international instruments, most notably the UN General Assembly Resolution of March 27, 2014 but Russians refused.
Crimea is occupied, so international humanitarian law applies to its territory. Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention “Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War” obliges the occupying state to provide the local population of the occupied territory with food, medicines and other necessary things, in particular water for drinking and domestic needs.
Why −4 agreement? “that likely didn’t make the government in Kyiv popular with the average Crimean” ≠ “government in Kyiv was obliged to do something else in this case”.
Addendum WRT Crimean economic situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Crimean_Canal, which provided 85% of the peninsula’s water supply, was shut down from 2014 to 2022, reducing land under cultivation 10-fold, which had a severe effect of the region’s economics
The new “authorities” of Crimea de facto refused to pay for water supply of the peninsula—to this day the issue of repayment of debts of water users of Crimea to the Office of the North Crimean Canal in the amount of 1.7 million hryvnia in 2013 remains unclear.
In 2015 Ukrainians proposed a new supply contract in accordance with international instruments, most notably the UN General Assembly Resolution of March 27, 2014 but Russians refused.
Crimea is occupied, so international humanitarian law applies to its territory. Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention “Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War” obliges the occupying state to provide the local population of the occupied territory with food, medicines and other necessary things, in particular water for drinking and domestic needs.
It might be worthwhile to add those details to the Wikipedia article.
Yes, that likely didn’t make the government in Kyiv popular with the average Crimean either.
Why −4 agreement? “that likely didn’t make the government in Kyiv popular with the average Crimean” ≠ “government in Kyiv was obliged to do something else in this case”.