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 and similar threads are instructive. You've been responded to by some who participate in an extremely long other thread, begun by SpeedyInTexas -- remember him? the "nuclear war" Freeper.
"I would rather the world end in nuclear war than yield to Little Pukin." 15 posted on 10/12/2022, 7:02:03 AM by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)It is as if a horrid war -- horrid for Ukrainians, Russians and some others as well -- is sport. To whit:
To PIF -- 18,883 posted on 8/4/2025, 8:19:58 AM by blitz128"Nuclear war" as a threat was raised right here on Free Republic in 2022. Indeed, the war is mot tuning out as many have planned. But one thing is certain:To 'blank' -- 18,880 posted on 8/4/2025, 7:36:36 AM by PIF
To FtrPilot -- 18,862 posted on 8/3/2025, 2:29:34 PM by marcusmaximus
US National debt -- $37,189,412,150,271 and rising fast
Because he cares about his people, unlike pitin and his meat grinder tactic.
“ never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake”
Speedy has left the building. LOL.
The truth is Zelensky does not have the warm male bodies to go on the offensive.
Or he would have already done so.
Is there anything left in Mariupol? I’ve seen the film.
Nope. He's still around and active as of last month. Proof ---
To: PIF -- 18,336 posted on 7/15/2025, 12:47:52 PM by SpeedyInTexasProof positive that "nuclear war" Speedy, from 2022 to last month, is very much around. His chums on this thread are fully aware. Now you are too.
As his most recent tagline states: "Defeat the Pro-RuZZia wing of the Republican Party." Given the rising national debt, the fact of "Biden's war" and Democrats in Congress, it seems the divide politically is no longer Republican versus Democrat. Demonstrably so. It is between massive debt and even more massive debt.
Herb Stein's observation is apt for wars as it is for debt. "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
Sorry to hear Speedy is still here. I thought he went the way of the Canuck conservative.
Sorry to pop the imagery. CanuckConservative is also still active, though not so visilby.
201 posted on 5/26/2025, 8:37:11 AM by canuck_conservative (Russia lies all the time)
Whippersnapper, me and the boys was sweatin’ bullets back in the fall of ‘57 watchin’ that Spootnick flyin’ over our country.
Those godless commie primates ...
“Whippersnapper, me and the boys was sweatin’ bullets back in the fall of ‘57 watchin’ that Spootnick flyin’ over our country.
Those godless commie primates ...”
>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Russians are not primates. On the other hand, the impostors and corrupt politicians running the Kremlin clearly are.
The Soviets threw men into the void on half-tested rockets, gambling lives for propaganda. Sure, they got a head start — but at what cost? Their strategy was reckless, prioritizing headlines over safety, and it led to countless silent tragedies hidden behind the Iron Curtain. America chose precision over panic. We took the time to engineer reliability, to protect life — not just parading.
If we had followed the Soviet model of brute-force trial and error, we would have beaten them into orbit with ease - not even a contest. But we didn’t sacrifice our principles — or our people — for the sake of beating the stopwatch and win a cheap propaganda war. And that’s the difference between a sprint and a legacy. We didn’t just aim to get there first — we aimed to stay, thrive, and lead. Look what Russia does today... they can’t even land a tiny robot on the moon, their “gadget” miserably failed as it crashed... as does most Russian stuff. The Kremlinists follow a religion called “Kaput”.
Yep, just two more weaks.
Kick in the front door, the whole rotten structure collapses.
Napoleon, Hitler, You
Wow. I’m busted up.
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