00:00A resident of Donetsk, occupied by Russia, showed what daily life is like in the city.
00:05after 12 years of occupation. In their apartment there is no running water or electricity, and the
00:11The expensive appliances she bought after the renovation are hardly ever used.
00:16The woman recorded a video with her mobile phone and walked around the apartment to show the consequences.
00:21from the collapse of public services. He plugged appliances into sockets and demonstrated that the
00:26The lights weren't working. He also showed the kitchen, where, instead of using the appliances
00:31Normally, people have to resort to using a plastic basin. (Sarcastically)
00:37He explains that, instead of spending so much money, he could have simply bought a washbasin.
00:42There's one in the kitchen, with stagnant, dirty, rusty water at the bottom. Nothing works. What's the point?
00:48Spend money on all this? Social media users point out that, until 2014, Donetsk
00:55It was one of the most developed and prosperous cities in Ukraine. It was an important center
01:00industrial, cultural and business, with modern infrastructure, universities, a stadium, an airport,
01:07Restaurants, shopping malls, and a normal urban life. After Russia's arrival, the city
01:13It entered a process of degradation. Donetsk continues to suffer a critical supply situation.
01:19water shortage, aggravated by the closure of the main Sibersky Donetsk Donbass aqueduct, the serious
01:24deterioration of public utility networks and regular power outages in the
01:29pumping stations. The recently constructed Don Donbass aqueduct only partially covers the area.
01:35the city's needs, and the water supplied is usually of industrial quality and requires a
01:40exhaustive filtering. The media previously reported that, following the Russian occupation,
01:45Mariupol was left in ruins, and its inhabitants survive amidst the devastation. Residents
01:52De Mariupol, who spoke anonymously to BBC journalists, claim that what
01:57What Russian television channels show is just a "pretty picture" that doesn't hold up
02:02relationship with reality. The apocalyptic aftermath of the bombings remains a bitter reality.
02:09for the city's inhabitants. According to a resident, the facades of the main streets
02:15They are repaired exclusively for cameras, while around the corner there are
02:20ruined buildings, where people still live between walls that are barely standing
02:25standing. According to the UN, nearly 90% of the city's housing stock was damaged or
02:32destroyed, and thousands of people died or were forced to flee. A refugee from
02:38Mariupol described the city as "once beautiful," but now in decline. He said the authorities
02:44Russians only repaired the buildings in the central square, while in other areas they did not.
02:49He built nothing on the sites of the demolished houses. He indicated that the rubble was
02:54They were removed, but not the bodies of the dead. They were simply loaded onto trucks together.
03:00with the garbage and they kicked them out of the city.
03:02The key problem remains the lack of water. One interviewee said that water appears
03:08It's contaminated for one or two days and then disappears for three. It's so contaminated that even boiling it
03:14It's scary to drink and it tastes like Coca-Cola.
