Several pro-Kremlin Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis representative council boasted about the water problems Ukraine had created for Crimea and said that even if Ukraine allowed water from the mainland to reach the Russian annexed peninsula, it could always turn it off again and that Ukraine would not negotiate Crimean water issues with Moscow.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Stop Fake: Ukraine boasts about Crimea drought
Harvested grapes at a vineyard near Bakhchisarai in Crimea in 2011.
