Three local water pipes damaged in clashes in eastern Ukraine disrupt water supply

World July 21, 2014, 13:28

DONETSK, July 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Three pipelines on Seversky Donets-Donbass water canal supplying water to east Ukraine’s Donetsk region were damaged in clashes near the local settlement of Gorlovka, the press service of the water canal’s operator reported on Monday.

“In the shelling on July 20 and 21, three lines of pressure pipelines in the area of the settlement of Mykytivka which is situated near the town of Horlivka. During combat actions specialists of the enterprise cannot go to the incident site,” the press service said.

Water supplies along the local canal were partially disrupted.

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