Donetsk Filtering Station stopped its work

Donetsk Filtering Station supplies drinkable water to Donetsk, Avdiyivka and neighbouring populated settlements, so it’s important object of Donbas infrastructure. This station is located in so-called ATO buffer zone between cities of Avdiyivka and Yasynuvata in Donetsk region and it is regularly fired during Ukrainian-Russian military conflict in the East of Ukraine. In the summer of 2014 the station functioned with stoppages owing to fights near Donetsk and then shells often hit that station in May and August of 2015. Nowadays Donetsk Filtering Station doesn’t work again since 13^th March 2016 after short-term restoring of its functioning since 4^th March. The station is shelled by Russian fighters in the last days, as it is told in the official reports of the press-centre of Ukrainian General Headquarters of anti terroristic operation. Lasting shells menace complete destruction of Donetsk Filtering Station, that’s why Ukrainian side called the occupants to stop military actions at least in the station area and to let Ukrainian masters into the station to repair it. Because long-term water absence threatens to people lives of local settlements. And it can cause humanitarian disaster to 480 000 local inhabitants and an epidemic of dysentery and hepatitis in the region, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine declared in its recent appeal. So Ukrainian state needs world help to solve this difficult situation and to stop military conflict in Donbas in general.