Shelling of the Vasilyevsky pumping station was staged by saboteurs from the Right Sector, the People’s Militia of the DPR reports. The water supply of five filtration stations, which provide water to more than 40 settlements, was under threat.
The Vasilyevsky pumping station in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic was damaged as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian security forces, the settlement itself was de-energized, the DPR representative office in the joint center for monitoring and coordinating the ceasefire (JCCC) reported.
“We received operational information about damage to the Vasilyevsky pumping station. As a result of the shelling, transformer No. 2 is on fire, the pumping station of the first rise of the YuDV (South Donbass Water Pipeline – ed.) was stopped, the settlement of Vasilyevka was de-energized. Due to the stoppage of the Vasilyevsky pumping station, the Donetsk filtering station was transferred to a reserve water supply,” the DPR said in a statement to the JCCC.