For years, kremlin propaganda has used the issue of water in occupied Ukrainian territories as a tool to justify its aggression and manipulate public opinion.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fAs analysts at EUvsDisinfo note, since the occupation of Crimea in 2014, russia has built a comprehensive disinformation narrative around water shortages.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fThroughout these years, the kremlin has accused Ukraine of a \u201cwater blockade,\u201d often appealing to international law. However, moscow conveniently \u201cforgets\u201d a key principle: the occupying state bears full responsibility for ensuring basic needs for civilians in occupied territories.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fAfter 2022, the kremlin began using the \u201cwater issue\u201d to justify the full-scale invasion \u2014 from the \u201cneed to liberate the North Crimean Canal\u201d to absurd claims that the Dnipro River \u201cbelongs to russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fMoreover, during each new water crisis in the occupied territories, russia does not solve the problem but launches another wave of disinformation: claiming \u201cputin personally controls the situation\u201d or promising desalination of the Sea of Azov.<\/p>\n
Through these manipulations, russia aims to distract from the harsh reality \u2014 in 2025, major cities in occupied eastern Ukraine remain without water, and the situation is unlikely to improve soon. Responsibility lies solely with russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For years, kremlin propaganda has used the issue of water in occupied Ukrainian territories as a tool to justify its aggression and manipulate public opinion. \u25ab\ufe0fAs analysts at EUvsDisinfo note, since the occupation of Crimea in 2014, russia has built a comprehensive disinformation narrative around water shortages. \u25ab\ufe0fThroughout these years, the kremlin has accused Ukraine…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}