Ukraine/Russia: Russia Has Achieved at Least 1 of Its War Goals: Return Ukraine's Water to Crimea

Jun 12, 2022 | Jason Beaubien, NPR
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Two days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, Russian military forces blew up a dam that Ukraine had built to cut off Crimea's primary water supply. Ukraine barricaded the North Crimean Canal in retaliation for Russia seizing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The Kremlin had been fuming about the dam ever since.