Delivery of drinking water has been suspended in destroyed Lysychansk. Amid the lack of “official” explanation residents are spreading rumours

Since the beginning of September, social media channels in Lysychansk have been flooded with complaints about the suspension of drinking water delivery in the town, Trybun reported.

The critical infrastructure of Lysychansk was destroyed due to the fighting in 2022. The city has been occupied since July 2022. For two years, special vehicles delivered drinking water to the city’s residents.

“I talked to a woman from the administration, and she said, yes, the water situation is not clear. The city has no money to pay for water delivery. The mayor of Lysychansk reported to Pasichnyk that there was water. Who knows anything else? Water has not been delivered for a week,” one woman wrote in a local chat room.

Due to the lack of information, residents are spreading rumours. Someone wrote that water will continue to be delivered only to “administrative” institutions. Others have allegedly heard that the special vehicles used to deliver the water did not pass a technical inspection or that they were sent to the Kursk region.