The center of east Ukraine’s Sloviansk comes under artillery fire from Ukrainian military. - “Serious problems with drinking water.”

The Ukrainian military are shelling the center of east Ukraine’s Sloviansk in the Donetsk Region, a spokeswoman for the Sloviansk people’s mayor said on Sunday.

“The center of the city is currently under artillery fire. One of the shells has exploded near the city administration building,” Stella Khorosheva told ITAR-TASS.

There have been no reports about any casualties yet.

The spokeswoman said mobile communications worked poorly and there were “serious problems with drinking water.”

• “The water pipe has not yet been restored and water has remained only where people have made up bottled water stocks or have their own wells,” she said.

Power supply has been cut off in most of the city. At night the Ukrainian military are using illuminating projectiles, the spokeswoman said.

Kiev is continuing its punitive operation in east Ukraine despite the pledge by the newly elected Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to “bring peace” to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
[indian.ruvr.ru]
8/6/14
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