It did not take Ukraine’s new prime minister long to generate controversy. Little-known politician Denys Shmygal had only occupied the PM’s office for a matter of hours when he went on national TV last week to voice his support for renewing water supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea, arguing that the move was justified on humanitarian grounds. The backlash was equally rapid, with widespread indignation forcing the PM to perform a U-turn and announce via social media that his comments had been taken out of context.
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A picture taken in the Crimea's Kirovsky region on April 27, 2014, shows a man walking on a bridge across the dry Northern Crimean Canal, which supplies the peninsula's water.
