MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - 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 quoted the governor of Russian-annexed Crimea Sergei Aksyonov as saying on Saturday.
Russian troops destroy Ukrainian dam that blocked water to Crimea
Ukraine cut off the fresh water supply to Crimea by damming a canal that had supplied 85% of the peninsula's needs before Moscow 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.
Until Ukraine blocked the North Crimean Canal, the waterway was a marvel of Soviet determination to bend the earth to human dictates, bringing irrigation to the arid steppe of an important Russian outpost on the Black Sea.
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