Water supply issue in Donetsk worsens, says CCD

The situation with access to water in the temporarily occupied Donetsk is only getting worse, despite recent statements by representatives of the Russian “administration” about “increasing the number of water trucks.”

According to Ukrinform, the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine reported this on Facebook.

Water is delivered once every four days. Local news outlets have published videos showing older people and children forced to stand in long lines in the cold. Only those residents who can come during the day have real access to water. For people returning from work in the evening, there is not enough water.

“The city's residents are in despair, but the representatives of the occupying authorities are not offering any solutions to the problem. Therefore, in their public statements, they talk about the military situation, the upcoming elections to the Russian State Duma, plans to repair roads, and mention the water crisis less and less,” the Center for Countering Disinformation noted.

The center emphasized that the humanitarian disaster caused by the lack of water in Donetsk demonstrates the actual price of Russian power.

“Russia does not want to develop the captured territories as a space for people to live; it views them exclusively as an instrument of war,” the CCD emphasized.

As reported by Ukrinform, three of the most powerful anthracite mines are being closed in Dovzhansk, in the Luhansk region, which is temporarily occupied by Russia.

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