Water & disease, disease & water, they are the alpha and omega of warfare in Crimea.
The Russian bill for destroying the Nova Kakhovka dam has come due.🧵
From the link:
"Earlier, media reports said since mid-June, a cholera epidemic...
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The Russian bill for destroying the Nova Kakhovka dam has come due.🧵
From the link:
"Earlier, media reports said since mid-June, a cholera epidemic...
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...has been in place in Crimea, something the occupation authorities have been concealing. It was noted that the healthcare watchdog received a collective letter of complaint from medics in one of the Simferopol hospitals. ...
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...They demand proper supplies of PPE and medicines for hospital staff amid the "epidemic spread of cholera since June 2024".
Water is heavy and 2 liters of clean water a day is the minimum needed for survival.
Soldiers fighting need more.
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Water is heavy and 2 liters of clean water a day is the minimum needed for survival.
Soldiers fighting need more.
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Crimea is in the middle of a the 4-month heatwave minus Dnipro diverted water.
Dehydrated elderly and children are horribly vulnerable to heat deaths and the cholera in Simferopol hospitals means Crimea is short of clean water.
Dehydrated elderly and children are horribly vulnerable to heat deaths and the cholera in Simferopol hospitals means Crimea is short of clean water.
Professor Yevhen Khlobystov, member of the expert council of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of Crimea says the following:
"Freshwater crisis may come to Crimea in a month or 1.5 months...
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"Freshwater crisis may come to Crimea in a month or 1.5 months...
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...of a certain level of precipitation. Then reservoirs may dry up and a water crisis may unfold."
He also added:
"The uncontrolled population drop and a massive military call-up of the peninsula leads to the fact that the military receives water in priority...
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He also added:
"The uncontrolled population drop and a massive military call-up of the peninsula leads to the fact that the military receives water in priority...
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...with no restrictions. If water shortage occurs, it will primarily affect the average residents of Simferopol and Central Crimea. The ‘authorities’ in Crimea will be to the last storing water in Sevastopol, where the military is based, as well as...
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...in the resorts of Yalta, Yevpatoria, and Feodosia, so that even a small number of vacationers are forced to go through inconvenience over water supply."
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The kicker is that front line Russian military units being supplied from Crimea and Southern Russia are currently getting 1 liter of water a day in 35 to 40 Deg. C heat.
And this has been confirmed from other Russian sources.
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And this has been confirmed from other Russian sources.
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https://x.com/TrentTelenko/status/1815921118596792602
Russian telegram channels reported RuAF cholera & typhoid outbreak in Kherson in late June 2024.
People need to watch Russian social media closely for further signs clean water shortages in occupied Ukraine, particularly reports of water borne diseases.
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People need to watch Russian social media closely for further signs clean water shortages in occupied Ukraine, particularly reports of water borne diseases.
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