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Posted on 08/04/2025 5:30:12 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
In the Russian-occupied cities of Donetsk and Mariupol, an escalating water crisis has pushed daily life to the brink of survival.
Water trickles out of taps for only a few hours every few days, often discolored and undrinkable. Entire neighborhoods have resorted to survival tactics like hauling water in buckets and collecting rainwater.
Local residents and observers in eastern Ukrainian cities have called on Russian-imposed authorities to tackle what they have said is a devastating situation that demands immediate attention.
'We Live In A Water Desert'
Once industrial heartlands of Ukraine, both Donetsk and Mariupol, as well as smaller towns around them, now face a deepening humanitarian emergency. The combination of destroyed infrastructure, failed reconstruction projects, and collapsing reservoirs has plunged the region into what analysts are calling a full-scale ecological and social catastrophe.
On July 22, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels with hundreds of thousands of followers published an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin signed by residents of occupied Donetsk.
The message, also echoed by pro-Kremlin bloggers and military propagandists, warned of a spiraling water crisis.
"Donetsk has had no stable water supply since 2022," the letter states. "Now it's only once every three days, sometimes less."
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This kind of stuff happens in places where artillery has been used abundantly.
“We live in a water desert.”
Well, yes, that’s what a desert is. Is some editor thinking, “This is like a food desert, except with water!” ... which reminds me of the T-Shirt I found in St Louis, “I’m like a chocoholic, except with beer.”
So if YouCrayne takes it back the “Water Shortage will magically disappear”?
LOL.
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
Your Putin has 4 days left to end his invasion.
I hear REEEeeeeeiiinngggg!
No eggs, no potatoes and now this?
Eventually yes , but this current situation shows just how much pitin cares about his Russian speakers he went to war for😎🤔
Collapse will only be for civilians - the Russian occupiers have plenty of water.
Its why Russian infrastructure across the country is in decrepit state.
I see. Only Zelensky can bring the Water Back.
I mean only SAINT Zelensky can bring the water back. After all, he can just wave his hands
and make water flow.
Of course not and your hyperbole is noted, question why are all of pitins sainted Russian speakers enduring such hardships when all is going as planned?😎
Everything Russia tries to control eventually falls apart.
Just look at Russia itself — crumbling infrastructure, leaking heat pipes, and hospitals barely holding together.
Wherever the Kremlin lays its hands, things decay.
They’re repeating the same mistakes the Soviets made, without learning a thing from history.
Well, pitin controls the area, why is there a water issue, where is Dear Leader, where is saint pitin🤔
Well it’s not going as planned. If Saint Z wants his land back he needs to get off his lazy azz
and take it back. No one is keeping him from going on the offensive.
lol, no need just bleed the Russian economy and wait for the 1991 collapse, and annexation by China of the eastern federation territory
No, not magically, but slowly. However, I don't expect Ukraine to take back any territory.
Why wait? He has the opportunity to show what a great Military leader he
is by taking ALL his land back instead of waiting for Trump to do it for him.
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