Russian attack leaves 18,000 with no gas, water supply

THE key eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is without a drinking water supply or natural gas for cooking and heating, authorities said on Thursday, as the Russian army’s attritional slog across the Donetsk region lays waste to public infrastructure and forces civilians to flee their homes.

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A water filtration station in Pokrovsk was damaged in recent fighting, and more than 300 hastily drilled water wells are the city’s last source of drinking water, Donetsk regional Gov Vadym Filashkin said. The previous day, Russians destroyed a natural gas distribution station near Pokrovsk, Filashkin said.