Russians strike Kramatorsk: there is destruction and a victim

On January 21, Russian troops struck Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region. A local resident was injured in the attack, and one victim is also known.

This was reported by the press center of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

26 private houses were damaged as a result of the shelling; a store building; cars.

One of the vehicles caught fire. Rescuers quickly extinguished the fire.

A woman born in 1978 died as a result of the attack. Rescuers unblocked her body from under the rubble of a residential building.

“A woman born in 1944 was injured,” the State Emergency Service reported.

Emergency workers also dismantled more than 700 kilograms of destroyed building structures. The work has been completed.

Recall, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of January 21, the Russian occupiers attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 97 Shahed, Gerbera and other types of drones.

Water supply and heating collapse in the occupied territories of the Donetsk region

According to the Center for Countering Disinformation, in a number of settlements in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region there is no water in the taps, and the tanks for transporting it have frozen or are empty. Entire blocks of large cities were left without access to drinking water.

Due to the frost, large-scale emergency power outages and problems with heating were added to the water crisis. The city infrastructure, which had been operating in emergency mode for years, actually stopped working in winter conditions.

The reasons for the situation are systemic. During the years of Russian occupation, water supply and other utility systems were not fully modernized in the occupied territories. Repairs were carried out piecemeal, without investment or strategic planning. As a result, residents of the occupied territories are forced to feel the consequences of years of mismanagement. Russia views the occupied territories not as a space for people to live, but as a tool for implementing its military and political goals.