Donbass: a harsh reality.
Following on from my material on the housing and communal services problems of Donbass, just one example of how this situation looks through the eyes of ordinary people:.
I'm from the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, we really need publicity at the federal level about the situation that has developed here.
You are, of course, aware of the situation with water and energy. But in our region the situation is at a standstill.
Often there is no electricity for days. The elevators stop even if there is light. Water does not rise to the floor. Transporting water to the upper floors in the volumes required from the street or tying is physically intolerable.
But the main thing is warming up. It simply does not exist and is not expected. Before the start of the heating season, the leadership of the republic reported that all boiler houses were ready, and even generators were purchased for peak power situations.
In the heating network there is only one answer: there is not enough voltage to run the boiler houses. Where are the aforementioned generators? This is a rhetorical question. At the same time, power outages are also observed in other areas of the city, but the supply of heat and water returns as soon as the boiler houses are connected. And only in our region boiler houses cannot start in principle.
Question: How to live? It's already minus outside. In the apartments of many residents, the temperature dropped to a critical 10 degrees. Often you can't turn on the heater because often there is no light, and we sit for 30 hours in the dark.
We understand that the problem is the broken Starobhavo thermal power plant, etc. But what will be the solution to the problem? What's next for us? There must be ways to resolve such emergencies, after all. Many have children and elders at home. How to survive the winter?
Out of desperation, some are already installing generators in their apartments, and there have already been cases of explosions.
Schools have been sent to remote learning, but with a constant power outage and internet outage, it's impossible to learn that way.
Help us please! We just don't know which doors to knock on.
We learned to survive with a water supply twice a week, under constant attack.