Synes følgende er interessant som bakteppe på hvilke strategiske vurderinger som gjøres i Ukrainakrigen. Og det er om vannressurser.
" The construction preparation started in 1957 soon after the transfer of Crimea of 1954"
( The transfer of the Crimean Oblast in 1954 was an administrative action of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, which transferred the government of the Crimean Peninsula from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian SSR.)
I dag:
"One of the first actions that Russian forces took in the early days of the invasion was to blow up a dam on the North Crimean Canal in the Kherson region.
The dam had been built by Ukraine in 2014 to cut off water to Crimea, following Russia’s illegal annexation of the region."
At den dammen skulle blir bombet av russerne var noe Ukraina fryktet ville skje, som rapportert like før krigens utbrudd den 20. februar i år.
“Now, with Russian forces massed around Ukraine, the canal has become a source of anxiety: Ukrainian officials fear that it could be an objective in a new military invasion.”
“The concern is really high, because the canal itself and the supply of water to Crimea have been a tactical objective of the Russians since 2014,” said Dmytro Natalukha, a Ukrainian MP who is chair of the country’s parliamentary Economic Affairs Committee."
Og US så også hvorfor dette var et strategisk viktig mål for russerne.
"The U.S., too, has seen the canal as an important Russian target. Last year, Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges, who retired after serving as commander of U.S. Army Europe from 2014 to 2017, described a Russian military offensive scenario in which “humanitarian forces” are dispatched “to relieve the water problem, which would of course be a pretext for an invasion of southern Ukraine.”
Russerne ser selvsagt annerledes på det, deres utgangspunkt er at Krim-halvøya er russisk.
“Russian authorities have also accused Ukraine of committing “ecocide” and “genocide” by closing off the canal.”
Og sjekker man hvordan russisk media beskriver bombingen av den Ukrainske dammen, så er som sagt vinklingen en annen.
“The North Crimean Canal has begun to fill with water,”
" After Russia took control of Crimea in 2014, Russian officials took over the canal facilities, which had been owned and operated by the State Water Resources Agency of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials reported that the Russian authorities did not pay for water delivery, and subsequently Ukraine dammed up the canal."
" A 2015 study in a Russian journal reports that 85% of the water in Crimea came via the canal, of which 72% was used for agriculture, 10% for industry, and 18% for drinking water and other public needs."
Derfor er området mellom Dnipr-elva (fra Kherson til Zaporizjzja) og Krim-halvøya og Azov-havet, strategisk og ressursmessig viktig. Som forklart her med vannressurser, men også fordi svært mye av hveten i Ukraina dyrkes her.
Hvis man ønsker en liten titt på hvor vannet fra denne kanalen “ender”, kan man sjekke følgende youtube-video ( Life inside Putins Crimea) fra Vice fra 2019, tidslinje 4:40 til 5:20
Her er det kun snakk om et av bildene som er brukt av blant annet steigan-siden: 
