At the water supply

On August 19, the water in Donetsk never appeared, and residents with plastic bottles, baths and buckets reached for the Kalmius River

In the city, water distribution points were also organized, which, however, is also taken from the river and is unsuitable for drinking. You can still buy drinking water in few open stores in the city center.

Photo: Pierre Pichchinin and Prata

Hospitals were left without water. As Vladimir Reshetov, Deputy Head of the 2nd Department of Breast surgery of the regional clinical hospital named after Kalinin, the hospital has a supply of water for a day, after the water is over, no surgical operations will become impossible. However, according to the doctor, the staff hopes that the leadership of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) will solve the problem with water: the wounded from the front is brought to Kalinin, and about a hundred militants are currently in the hospital.

Photo: Sergey Khazov-Cassia

The employees of the Ramada hotel, in which many foreign journalists live in an original way, left the situation: water is supplied to the rooms for three hours in the morning and in the evening and is taken from ... the pool. “In our pool, the water is cleaner than in the water supply,” the New Times explained at the hotel. “The volume of the pool is 130 cubic meters, yesterday in a day in the hotel they spent 8. In addition, there are stocks and bottled drinking water.”