Black Sea Fleet HQ is "dewatered"

03.03.2011 Black Sea Fleet HQ in Sevastopol is disconnected from water supply, reports New Region referring to a source in the fleet's headquarters.

According to him, on March 2 the city water-supplying company Sevgorvodokanal forcedly cut off Black Sea Fleet HQ and Officer's Club from water.

The reason for such radical measures of Ukrainian authorities was trivial indebtedness of the fleet's organizations for these municipal services in Jan-Feb, 2011.

The BSF representative explains the debt as "technical problems related to adoption of new mutual exchanges sequence". However, Ukrainian bureaucrats do not believe Russian military on trust, said the official.

According to the source, "all appropriate instructions to make freshwater and utility water reserves have been done; however, it is not improbable that heating and gas cutoffs would be the next steps".

"As it is seen, friends are okay when they don't get in the way", said the BSF representative.