Kiev plan: to disconnect the DPR from the water supply. And at the same time Mariupol?
Disconnections in the Donbas began
In connection with the accumulated debts of the municipal enterprise Voda Donbassa (according to a strange scheme at the same time serving both the DPR and the territory controlled by Ukraine), owned by the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov DTEK PES-Energougol at the request of the Ukrainian state-owned Ukrinterenergo began with 23 in May disconnect water facilities from electricity.
On Thursday, May 23, the 16 settlements in the territory controlled by Ukraine, in the Konstantinovsky and Dzerzhinsky districts, were left without water. The monopolist threatens to continue shutting down cities and villages of Donbass until the Enterprise “Water of Donbass” pays off the accumulated debts, which together constitute more than 1,277 billion hryvnia (about 3 billion rubles).
The disconnection of the infrastructure of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, which is practically the only source of water supply for one and a half million residents of the DPR and the occupied part of Donbass, has been discussed in Kiev for several years. The question is, of course, not only in debt, but also in the possibility for Ukraine to do a dirty trick to the “separatists”. Kiev stops only: if you stop the water supply in the DPR, at the same time Mariupol will be deprived of water, in which industrial enterprises belonging to the same Akhmetov are concentrated.
Exploration by battle
However, this time Kiev is set up quite seriously. According to unofficial information, not only colossal debts of KP “Water of Donbass” and the opportunity to spoil the Donetsk People's Republic are at stake, but also mouth-watering opportunities to earn money on the liquidation of the company's property (in particular, the same pumping stations serving the Seversky Donets-Donbass channel) and also “master” the loan from the EBRD for the organization of the “alternative” water supply of Mariupol.
2 on April 2019 of the year, the Ukrainian side has already conducted a test power outage at the canal facilities, therefore, those who are in Dokuchaevsk, Elenovka and Yasny village temporarily left without water. To show the success of the enterprise, Mariupol was temporarily completely transferred to the water supply from the Starokrim reservoir.
Vitaly Kizhaev, First Deputy Minister of Housing and Public Utilities of the DPR, addressed the population with a statement:
“The information spreading through the networks that as a result of the shutdown of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, the DPR will be left without water is unreliable. With such a development of events it is possible to reduce the volume of water supply to consumers, the transition to the supply of water on schedule, however, the water supply will continue to be implemented. "
However, the population does not share the confidence of representatives of the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the DPR — recently, residents of the republic have increasingly perceived the statements of high-ranking officials as white noise.
Mariupol on the verge of disaster
All water entering Mariupol is delivered either from the DPR or from the Starokrym reservoir. Previously, the city also used underground sources on the street. Low-fountain, in the villages of Gnutovo and Talakivka, but they are all closed due to inconsistencies with sanitary and hygienic standards. Frankly speaking, the use of water from the Starokrym reservoir for drinking and cooking would also not be due to its high rigidity and pollution of the Kalmius and Kalchyk rivers.
At the same time, due to chronic interruptions in water supply by the DPR (since 10 in June 2014, the infrastructure of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal is almost weekly fired upon by Ukrainian artillery), the local population living in the private sector drilled numerous wells without permission , which not only affect the lowering of the aquifer in the reservoir, but also can provoke a sharp deterioration in the sanitary-epidemiological situation. In the summer, all this is especially dangerous and fraught with an epidemic.
Nevertheless, in Kiev they are not too hiding that they treat the population of a huge city as potential “quilted jackets” and “Colorads”, in connection with which they may well decide on an adventure.
Probably, in the event of a complete cessation of water supply to the territory of the DPR (and, accordingly, in Mariupol), the time will come for new “Minsk agreements” that always follow Ukraine’s particularly persistent attempts to harm the Donbas. To date, there have been no attempts to resolve the situation on the part of the Ukrainian government. So, it is better for the residents of the republic to always keep a few dozen liters of water in reserve - no matter how Zelensky doesn’t break a joke in a new role.
- Yegor Makhov
- politnavigator.net
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