Russian troops do not stop shelling Popasna in the Luhansk region, which they are trying to encircle.
During the next shelling of the city, the army of the occupying state hit the capacities of the Popasnyansky water utility. The Russians damaged a substation building and an open switchgear with transformers at one of the filtering stations. The equipment is probably damaged as well.
This was announced by the head of the Luhansk military administration Sergei Gaidai.
As a result of enemy shelling, one million people were left without water. In particular, the residents of the occupied territories of the region. According to Gaidai, it will be possible to resume water supply only after the cessation of hostilities.
Water supply has been completely stopped for an indefinite period in Popasnaya, Zolotoy, Gorny, Pervomaisk, Kadievka, Alchevsk, Khrustalny, Anthracite, as well as in the villages of Toshkovka, Chekhirovo, Loskutovka, Podlesnoye, Volcheyarovka, Madoryazantsevo, Lisichanskoye.
As reported, as a result of an air strike by the army of the Russian Federation , the light went out first in Lisichansk, and then in Severodonetsk. Powerful power lines with a voltage of 200 kV were cut off.
