Attacks cut water supply to Donetsk

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MOSCOW. Feb 1 (Interfax) – Water supply has been cut to Donetsk and, partially, to Makiivka as a result of an attack on a water filtering station, the Donetsk news agency said with reference to the Voda Donbasa company.

“The hostilities caused a power outage at the Verkhnekalmiusskaya water filtering station at 9:30 a.m. The fourth grid connection (35 kV power transmission line) was damaged. Water supply has completely stopped to the city of Donetsk and the Chervonohvardeiskyi district of Makiivka,” the report said.

More than 100 gas mains were damaged in Novoazovsk, Donetsk, Horlivka and Makiivka over the past day, it said.

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