“The transport blockade of Crimea, arranged by Ukrainian nationalists eight years ago, is a thing of the past.

Today, the process of restoring cargo and passenger traffic has begun, ”he said in a comment to RIA Novosti.

According to Kryuchkov, it was also possible to restore the railway lines connecting the Crimea and the Kherson region.

Earlier, the chairman of the State Committee for Water Management and Land Reclamation of Crimea, Igor Vail, said that the peninsula would completely abandon other sources of water, except for the North Crimean Canal, by the end of spring.

Kirill Stremousov, deputy chairman of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region, head of the committee for the salvation of the Kherson region “For Peace and Order”, assured that water would be guaranteed to be supplied to Crimea through the North Crimean Canal.