Mykolaiv residents bring water from a truck. Photo sent by Sergio Araujo to Clarin
Iegor says he can. That you don’t need help. Take four cans of 5 liters of water each as if they were a coveted piece. Again offers help, but the young man refuses. You can see he makes force. Seeing that the plastic of the drums presses against the skin of his hands and causes him pain. But Iegor, 21, walked quietly and agitated without even speaking to the saints. Adheres to beverage containers: He doesn’t want to let go of what he worked so hard to achieve in Mykolaiv.
He opened the door of his old Soviet monoblock. Invite Clarion up the stairs to his house on the third floor. He opened another door, a thick brown chap. There is a hallway, a living room, his mother, his father and his grandparents. The elders at home welcome the visit but do not want to talk. They don’t want a photo. They seem to be angry with the zealous Iegor. They asked him to stay with the Argentine envoys in the kitchen.
“In my house there is a crack in the attack -Iegor is recognized-. My grandparents believed that Russia was right. We’ve argued a lot about it and we decided not to talk any more. When bombs fall, they begin to doubt what they believe. Also when I told them we didn’t have water because the Russians bombed the distribution pipes. “
The department is small rooms, dimly lit, relatively humid. It began construction in the ’70s and only finished in 2003: it was born old. Not a single drop of water comes out anywhere. Nothing is more sad than turning on the faucet and feeling the drought. And if you wanted to go to the bathroom, what would you do? Iegor listened to the question and went to the bathroom. “Well, we put the water we collect in drums and we throw away disinfectant: we don’t have water,” he says, showing the half -empty container of liquid to clean the bathrooms.
A resident of Mykolaiv was carrying water. Photo sent by Sergio Araujo to Clarin
Weapons of war
Lack of drinking water is not a new problem in Ukraine, but in the fight it has worsened. Due to the bombing, a large part of the pipes were damaged and repair becomes impossible. Other areas were completely cut off from water supply.
In the poorest areas, such as Donestk or Luhansk, people hide in cellars, shelters and garages for hours – sometimes days – and face water shortages. A few days ago, the European Union denounced Russia’s use water “as a weapon of war” in the city of Mariupol and “the threat of dehydration to force the city’s surrender”.
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