The dwindling population of the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk relies on public water pumps as the sole water supply.
"It's a great risk for us, but what can we do?"With heavy fighting raging nearby as Russian forces continue their push on Donetsk — part of the industrialAnd local officials believe things will only get worse once the cold sets in.Locals fill their bottles with hand pumps or from plastic tanks at one of five public wells before hauling them home in bicycle baskets, wheeled carts and even children's strollers.
Following the death of her husband, Nikolai, from diabetes four years ago, Ms Mahlii shares her Soviet government-provided apartment with two bright yellow canaries and an assortment of house plants. "Bread and water are sacred and they just took it from people. Such actions must be punished, maybe not by us, but hopefully by God's judgement."
"All these wells and pumps will freeze," Mr Goncharenko says, adding places like Sloviansk and Kramatorsk — which also has no gas — are "hostages of destroyed infrastructure."
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