“Crimea River”: Russia & Ukraine’s Water Conflict

Aug 26, 2021 | Willis Sparks and Alex Kliment
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Russia and Ukraine have been at odds over lots of things in recent years, but the latest spat is over something particularly fluid and intractable: water. While much of the attention on Ukraine's conflict with Russia tends to focus on eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists control two Ukrainian provinces amid an ongoing civil war that's already killed 14,000 people, there's also Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 and continues to govern directly. Since that time, Crimea has been running out of drinking water, and Moscow isn't happy about it.