Russian pro-Kremlin media have accused Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin of depriving Crimea residents of water. Speaking about the situation in the northern Crimean city of Armyansk where poisonous gases spewed into the atmosphere at the Crimean Titan chemical plant leading to evacuations and environmental damage, Klimkin said Ukraine was aware of questionable Russian plans to build a new water supply route and would never allow water supplies to the occupied peninsula under a contract where Crimea was deemed to be part of Russia.
It was this phrase which Russian media used to create such inaccurate headlines as Ukraine will never supply water to Crimea, focusing on the word never, rather than the legal aspect of Crimea’s occupation that Klimkin focused on.
