hello kirill vyshinsky, and this program is a typical novorossiya, our name says it all, we are talking about the territory that has returned to its historical roots. he does the trick with a close look at history. we will try to reveal the originality of her present day, to find in it typical features and recognizable signs of the past. and that's what we'll talk about today. without water, how soviet water pipelines became a means of pressure on novorossiya. how to deal with water blackmail conversation with an expert of the war program through the eyes those who live on it documentary films about donbass at the festival of the rt tv channel the time of the hero? novorossia is predominantly a steppe

region with limited water resources , dry and hot climate at the beginning of the development of these territories in the 18th-19th centuries , land cultivation technologies were aimed at maximizing the preservation of moisture in local black soil in the 20th century. in soviet times. here, irrigation systems and canals were actively built to transfer water from the beds of the dnieper and tributaries of the donor. to provide water to the donetsk region, in which there are no large rivers. in the fifties of the last century , the seversky donetsk canal of donbass was built into the water along it from the tributary. the don bone of the kalmius river was pumped by a system of powerful pumps. the length of this unique hydraulic structure, 133 km , was built in the 1960s to save the regions of the kherson region and crimea from drought.

water was taken from a specially built kakhovka reservoir in the lower reaches of the dnieper, thanks to which moisture-loving rice was grown in the north of crimea until 2013. the channel provided the peninsula. about 80% the volume of water intake, the vulnerable position of the region. in novorossiya. after their self-determination in 2014, the ukrainian authorities took advantage of strikes against infrastructure created back in soviet times to inflict maximum damage barbarous methods water blockades became a new type of weapon the economy of the northern crimea was seriously damaged, despite all

the alternative water supply in 2021 during years of drought, the shortage was already felt on the entire peninsula, they began to give water according to a strict schedule only after the start of their own and the liberation of the territories through which the canal passed ; it was filled with water; at the beginning, its channel, which originates in ukrainian-controlled slavyansk, was purposefully de-energized, pumping stations were put out of action, hot water was supplied. in donesk stopped almost immediately cold water began to be dosed and according to the schedule, once every three days for 2-3 hours, water carriers were launched around the city , stable water supply to the population remained only a small area. dnr where

it is. its underground sources partially solved the problem of water supply to the donbass due to the construction of water. a new hydraulic structure was laid across the territory of the rostov region and the donetsk people's republic about how water came to donetsk from the house in the plot. tell me specifically fill in the system accepted, including pump. with just a couple of commands, by pressing a button on the control panel, hundreds of cubic meters of water flowed from the don river and were pumped into huge tanks that had previously been empty. the beginning of the test launch of the water pipeline from the rostov region to the donbass was preceded by painstaking, but construction standards , the rapid work of the shock construction of the new century. back in mid-february. there were metal frames. today, a full-fledged

pontoon water intake station is launched , the first of the pumping stations has beaten the heart of the conduit, rostov-on-don. seversky donetsk donbass is ahead of stage-by-stage filling of storage tanks with water, hydraulic tests, of course, while this is a technical test launch, specialists will have to evaluate whether everything is in order with the equipment and the annual route itself. but this is 200 km of pipes. the pressure will be specially applied to excess in order to find out all the vulnerabilities , for example, at the place where the seams are welded. donbass almost 300,000 cubic meters per day from the rostov region, water will flow to the donbass through two duplicate water lines. don feed the dry canal seversky donets built soviet years specifically for the water supply of donbass from the neighboring dnieper, ukraine blocked it immediately after it lost it, mariupol, as well as in donetsk. now there is an extremely difficult situation with water there. and

mariupol now receives water exclusively from e, the kartochek reservoir, which is located near the city. eh, well, to his. it was a reserve source of water supply, mariupol, and back in august it was said that the water in this reservoir would be enough for about a year and the conditions for its rational use of the water conduit from the don became projects unprecedented for russia, for the first time it is built in such a short time for objects of such complexity, as a rule, several years are allotted. hundreds of enterprises from all over the country are involved in this entire russian construction. and, of course, in the donbass itself, only the khartsyzsk plant, for example, produced 30 km of pipes for the water conduit. well, he was an honest metallurgical plant supplied steel sheets. depending on the thickness of the metal, we adjust the speed . an order for production at this plant was received at the end of november and within a month. it was completed over 45.000 t ahead of schedule with

production of large diameter pipes. both for water supply networks and for gas pipelines of oil pipelines the whole team. uh is ready to work for a common cause, ready to raise production to increase production of problem products. donetsk region, not by hearsay familiar to crimea in 2014 , the peninsula also faced an introductory blockade after the blocking of the north crimean canal by ukraine an up-to-date reading of the old approaches, when man-made rivers were laid at the cost of incredible efforts ; according to the scientist every year. everything is lower, this is not the canal bed, as everyone

in the crimean canal did in their time, and then they suffered. uh, with this one, we're laying down with lossy films with leaks and so on. so it is with evaporation, when we lose half of the water supplied, which goes into the lower horizons of the earth's crust and so on, causing flooding, swamping and so on. here the most reasonable rational way is to lay these conduits and give this water to yukh earlier in the donbass several smaller conduits have already been launched, for example, the chernovsky water conduit under the debaltse to the volnovakhi rovenky and dokuchaevsk facilities, as well as the line from the khanzhonson reservoir, the seversky donetsk canal, however, the pipes in houses. they are mostly rotten. water there is no more than 25%, and here are very optimistically optimistic figures , taking into account the waterfalls that we have and which reach almost 60% on of individual sections, and often in fact

, the construction of new networks is one of the most important tasks for the entire donbass last year. we have modernized, repaired and restored more than 250 facilities related to the water supply system this year. we have the same serious tasks for more than 300 km of networks. we have to restore more than 100 areal objects, we have to do it on average for almost a million donetsk now. by 60,000 cubic meters of water per day for comparison until 2021, this figure reached 300,000 cubic meters, while water for people is bred in tanks, or served on a strict schedule, but even then , residents still have to carry buckets to the upper floors, the water just does not rise. in the city of donetsk, our company currently maintains about 3 km 200 e 3.200 km of water supply networks of various

diameters, and in order to fill them only to fill them e, 180,000 m³ of water is needed, that is, can you imagine what 60,000 is? how do we have to dodge in order to somehow supply water to people to partially solve this problem water conduits from the rostov region should be put into operation, however, the authorities. the donetsk republic openly admits this after all. not a panacea we can but it won't close everything. i’ll tell you, if we didn’t build a water conduit from the don now, if we started building it, then in six months we wouldn’t have water at all to completely provide water. uh, here is our ion, we can only liberate

the territory. but this is a completely different task, and hundreds of thousands of military personnel are actively working on its solution in the anna efimova zone valery savelyev anastasia popova is a typical new russia. about how the water supply to novorossiya was used as a means of pressure, as an actual weapon, we will talk with our permanent expert to historians , political scientist alexander vasiliev. sasha good afternoon. hello, in the middle ages, blocking water was one of the most effective means during the siege of cities or fortresses, but then there was no humanitarian law. today , this tool is again used as a weapon. we returned to the middle ages. and if in the middle ages, in response to such a siege, yes, there the knights could go out into the field, so to speak , line up and fight with each other in general, the surrounding population, so to speak,

not like that. it was all a burden, then, of course, today it looks like. quite differently , donbass, uh, experienced, but huge problems with water, yes, respectively, worship. and well, it didn’t start just now , yes, that is, one could refer there to some mutual moments, so to speak, and so on, but in the fourteenth year, of course, of course, and the water energy blockade of crimea, but hmm , and if again but if the energy blockade, ukraine at least somehow tried, after all, some incomprehensible activists, or some kind of ukrainian extremists. yes, the water in the crimean canal was blocked by the ukrainian state and refused on principle to even discuss the possibilities there. for money not for money, how is it to direct it, so to speak, moreover? what is the logic? yes, that's what he said about the siege of medieval methods of war. but uh, and about humanitarian law. yes, because we constantly hear all sorts of statements about the occupation, which means that the crimea is constantly rural,

says our people are there. they are waiting for us. there are more of these people. yes, they kept northern crimea without water, it suffered very seriously. from all these types of blockade, including, of course, from water back in the fourteenth year, what are they talking about? e that ukraine already then, again, and donbass blackmailed, because, and when there was, well, some kind of military opportunity to seize mariupol in august. in september of the fourteenth year. yes, we agreed that then ukraine would have, but blocked that same e-channel. uh, seversky donetsk which supplies water, including, and to the house of mariupol , water is supplied and, in fact , the region was huge then, right? i would be completely without water. ukraine would be with its bare hands, could, but take it. here is this blackmail already then turned on. and now he was involved, the most surprising thing is that, but in general, here again , there is nothing about international humanitarian law at all, not that there is no reaction to it. yes,

the majority, uh, and the townsfolk. there some journalists politicians in the west don't even have a crime about that year the city, which in pre-war times numbered a million population and a significant part of which remained e, and from their land. they don't want to go anywhere. yes, the agglomeration is even stronger. uh, in fact, there is no normal service and water. after all, this is not only. uh, it’s five, yes, yes, it’s both technologically and in public utilities heating systems associated with this in the winter , donbass, including this, experienced very big problems. that is such a complex problem. you spoke about the reaction of the international community. amazing thing for it really wasn't on this one actually. the declared genocide by creating unbearable conditions there is no water, but at the same time, uh , the international reacts strangely, while everyone

was silent, conditions, while the warrants of the international criminal court immediately appeared. how to explain it they look absurd. and what about there just children? yes, uh, children's health camps in the summer, and everything is in the north, the caucasus is beautiful mountainous there. hmm these holiday homes and in fact today all these people fall under charges of genocide, because in the convention it is corresponding to the forty -sixth year. there is a whole line that implies the transfer of children from one community to another, so it understands that russian children in the donbas yes turn out to be, and somewhere in a pioneer camp in u-e territory, then the rest of the subjects of the russian federation, this is the way out of relations, which means some terrible things are happening crimes, they change their identity and so on and so forth. actually it's us we know who was engaged in a systematic, a change of identity.

if these children are especially here, that is, and those territories there are the zaporozhye kherson regions, which are really absolutely completely russian-speaking and communicate in russian in everyday life in the family, but were deprived by the state, and the opportunity to study their native language in kindergarten at school to receive on him higher education. yes, here and now, now today, uh, he blames russia for this, and the main thing is that they fall on the western audience, but that ukraine left a whole region, uh, without water, for example, without a normal water supply. yes , they just don't know about it. donetsk got water from the rostov region on new year's eve. uh, due to the fact that the old soviet channel. stochen and will not deliver . well, let's hope that sooner or later this will happen and the water supply through the soviet canal will be restored , then what to do with this new year, will there be such duplication of infrastructure, if we are talking about the water supply of donbass, this must

be understood. we are in the first part. yes we talked about humanitarian problems, which, of course , are the most acute, but let's talk broadly, so to speak, and the industry, primarily in the donbass, was the main consumer of these water pipeline systems, because in addition to that, it is known. now this channel is wide. and seversky donetsk donbass there is a channel, which, along the e, dnepropetrovsk region, basically runs a little poltava and further to kharkov. this is a canal that led the non-provincial water for the water supply of donbass, and this soviet time was already there in the brezhnev time. quite late another canal was built. yes, that's because this canal is after the war, and roughly speaking, in the era of stagnation, the next canal, because these industrial giants of donbass consumed , among other things, a huge amount of water. ah, and therefore, we all believe and hope that the industrial enterprises of donbass are the main function of this region. uh, in

russia, here is the industrial heart, yes, which was there at the end of the 19th century, began to beat. eh, this feature will be in demand, and without full water supply, of course, this will not happen. and the more will be reborn. eh, donbastroindustrial. and, of course, the greater the consumption will be, and i don’t think that this or that infrastructure facility will be superfluous. thank you very much for a very detailed story. 9 years of war in the donbass in the heart of novorossiya not only changed the appearance of cities and towns beyond recognition, but also led to a deep internal transformation of many people, civilians, perhaps the most urbanized region of europe, became civilians. so in the jargon of the military they call those who have been fired on since 2014 without any strategic purpose, who, like a human

shield in 2022, were covered during the battles for mariupol lisichansk and other occupied cities, miners and metallurgy, businessmen and public utilities, men and women of donbass became militias and volunteers defending their homes. behind the external convoy of events with news stories and reports from the lines of combat contact. the essence of people would often remain, as it were, in the shadows. they are too big filled with deep tragedy and are not always able to fit into short reports. our colleagues from the rt tv channel at the documentary film festival. they decided to show about donbass what is difficult to tell in the news in the center of each film is a poignant story about heroes and their destinies, military doctors who liberated mariupol, volunteers saving lives under bullets, who became

earthly angels for abandoned and destitute military correspondents. whose texts sound louder than any canada, they all, wherever they were born, and whatever they did in their lives, have already become heroes. more about the time of the heroes in the plot of olga mokhova right here. many even do not understand. uh, what really happens there when you, uh, leave moscow . we go by car and arrive in the donbass, you cross the border to the donbass, you find yourself in some other dimension. there are completely different people living there. i have never been to ukraine. i have never been to donbass. in general, in principle, they have there, no friends, no relatives. another reality is other people , but real life is like that, if you can briefly summarize the reviews of those who filmed the stories of people in the donbass daria ganieva is not a military commissar and

not a documentary filmmaker, she first went to mariupol in july 2022 with volunteers at the invitation of the russian orthodox church, so as not to see from tv or from social networks what is happening there. in mariupol , people have the feeling that they have gone through all the worst, they are already afraid of nothing , as if there is nothing and they, on the contrary , look at life with tremendous optimism. these women are called by their sons who say that everything is in order with me, he doesn’t deport me much. we exchanged with her without staging shots, they retreat, following their heroes. what would the tasks of the shadow performed and, of course, only direct speech without cuts and adjustments trust for trust is the only way in the donbass that you can endear yourself to your interlocutors. no, he lives his own life. we stopped in body armor caucasians. we go down the street and look. ah, the boys play football on the roadway, here and there old people,

grandmothers stand at bus stops, it became so embarrassing, we stopped. of course, we filmed all this, because we must. well , it is impossible to be together with the inhabitants of donbass. after all, being afraid is a habit of living under the cannonade of war, how fate will dispose of such here, everyday philosophy, as director oleg nekishev shared his observations, in addition to courage, the inhabitants of donbass are distinguished by a not vague concept of the motherland, they know for sure that they are protecting the heroes. e. machine gunner, call sign , he just went to fight, because in the fourteenth year, when the shelling of donbass began, he flew in. uh, that was exactly what bombed his house and he already had a little daughter at that time. yeah, uh, and she comes out and says, daddy, who did that? need it punish, and i said, i understood it was necessary.

the commander of the medical platoon, natalya, with the call sign dragonfly, the son went to fight. as soon as he turned 18, now, after being wounded, he is already preparing for the fifth operation. it would seem that women do not belong here, they should hate war, but they are here so that it ends faster. i don't like small arms, i really don't, because i've seen too much over the years. i don't even know. will i shoot the person they want to protect my life, i have to do it. maybe in front of us the same mobilization people as ours. yes, the guys who lived a peaceful life, only there in another dimension, like mariupol donetsk or severodonetsk life and death literally go hand in hand, but death does not become more familiar from this. just every moment of life. here they appreciate how much more everything is your dose, and next to it is a girl,

she was frying pancakes, here. well, i have my buried it. here is a baby, nursed a splinter arrived newborn time. how old is the baby for a week? wow hero, kapets a month. and the truth only remains to be surprised, how in mariupol, under shelling , zoo workers counted the dead animals and took care of the survivors; how, in severodonetsk , the cook marina, having lost her home and her own cafe , lives at the temple and prepares soup for other equally disadvantaged citizens. and this is mutual assistance and mutual assistance - this is probably the common thing that i saw in severodonetsk and mariupol. this, of course, is also worth a lot. we often do not know who our neighbors are, everyone knows everyone there, while the donbass

region is not homogeneous and the inhabitants of one city, as it turned out, are very different from the inhabitants daria admits another, many children left for europe, they arrange their lives there , they study, but i didn’t see any kind of rivalry between them. i don’t know the screams that you made the wrong choice there. they communicate just adequate people. i think they will always find, in general, the language is here. i want to return, they say, journalists, volunteers move here to live and help. of course, working hands in the donbass will definitely not be superfluous either in construction or in healthcare, they are convinced that the reality is here, but the local mariupol residents an offer to help with the departure is refused, they say. this is hometown. and that means you have to live here olga mokhova anastasia popova valyrius, savelyev is a typical new russia. that's all we wanted to talk about. kirill vyshinsky was with you today. see you soon.

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