Ukraine cuts off water to LPR due to debt
Luhansk has no cold water supply, LIGA.net reported with reference to sources in the city.
Yevheniy Nasedkin, press secretary of the Luhansk Energy Association (LEA), which is part of Konstantin Grigorishin’s Energy Standard holdings, confirmed that the water supply had been switched off in the former provincial center.
“It was switched off today. The reason is the Popasna Waterworks’ debt,” he said. According to him, it has been in debt to the LEA since July 2015, and today the debt amounts to 170 million hryvnia.
Nasedkin did not offer a prediction of when the water supply to the occupied region of the Luhansk province would be restored.
The Luhansk Information Center, a separatist news agency, reported that on Tuesday the water supply from the Petrovsk pump station of the Popasna Waterworks, which is located in Ukrainian-controlled territory, was cut off. The Privetne, Obozne and Vesela Hora settlements reportedly had no water supply.
There was a similar situation towards the end of 2016. On December 1, the LEA turned off the water supply to the LPR (towards Luhansk). The happened because the Popasna District Waterworks owed 124 million hryvnia for electricity. The LPR began to repay the debt, and so the water supply was restored in January.