Canal in annexed Crimea to be readied for water from Ukraine's Dnieper, official says

The governor of Russian-annexed Crimea said on Thursday he had ordered local authorities to prepare a water canal to receive water from the Ukrainian river of Dnieper, amid a Russian military operation against Ukraine.

Ukraine cut off fresh water supply along the canal that had supplied 85% of the peninsula's needs after Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014. The Soviet-era waterway was built to channel water from the Dnieper to arid areas of Ukraine's Kherson region and Crimea.