 Russia also left Crimea without water. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Olexii Danilov, speaking on United News TV, said that the recent explosion at the Karkovka hydroelectric power station carried out by the Russians has resulted in a loss of fresh water supply to Crimea. The Crimean Peninsula's water supply is fed by water from the Nipro River, which flows through the North Crimean Canal located in Nova Karkovka. Russia's action will make it impossible to supply water to Crimea in the near future, Danilov said. According to Danilov, water supply to Crimea will be impossible for the next three, five, ten years until this dam is rebuilt. In order to shed light on the potential risks associated with water supply to Crimea, Kyiv Post reached out to Mikhailov Khorov, Ukraine's former deputy minister of environmental protection and natural resources. Khorov said that the situation in Crimea would revert back to its state when Ukraine cut off water supply through the North Crimean Canal, following Russia's occupation of the peninsula in 2014, but it won't cause any drinking water shortages. According to calculations, Crimea has sufficient water resources to meet the population's drinking water needs, but using it is not easy at all.