Donbass: torture by thirst

The Kiev regime has begun the next stage of fencing off the territories it controls from the LDPR. The head of the “military-civil administration of the Donetsk region” Pavel Zhebrivsky recently stated that the Ukrainian side has begun to build a high-pressure gas pipeline bypassing the territory of the DPR.

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The purpose of such projects is clear: firstly, it is necessary to finally break any ties between the junta-controlled territories and the DPR and LPR. And secondly, to do as much harm as possible to the rebellious people’s republics.

The first point has been fulfilled and exceeded by Bandera’s followers in almost all respects. Today, there are no railway or regular road connections between Ukraine and Donbass, power lines have been broken, and gas pipelines have been shut down in most places.

But in terms of causing harm, Kyiv clearly tried on its own. It certainly didn’t work out with electricity: Donbass was an energy surplus region before the war, and the remaining generating capacity of the republics turned out to be capable of at least covering the household needs of the population. It didn’t work out with gas either: many cities in Donbass were supplied directly from Russia before the war, in addition, a powerful gas transport corridor from the North towards the Don and Kuban has been running through the LPR since Soviet times. In general, a comedy happened with the railways: the Nazi blockade forever deprived Ukraine of both anthracite and foreign exchange earnings from metallurgy.

But there is one trump card in the hands of Ukraine, and it is called water. Things have always been bad with water in the Donbass: in many cities of the DPR and LPR it was supplied to apartments by the hour even in the best of times, and even more so now. And a lot of water is required: for example, one ton of steel requires up to twenty tons, a kilowatt-hour of electricity requires tons, and in addition to metallurgy and energy, there are also such “water-supply industries” as chemistry, mechanical engineering and agriculture. It is interesting that in the Soviet years, collective farmers did not pay a penny for the water supplied to their fields: their cubic meters were recorded by the industrial giants of the region.

It is for the sake of such powerful consumers that the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal was built six decades ago. Many people think that the canal is a man-made river, but in this case the source is below the mouth, and guests of Donbass in the old days were often surprised when, in the area of ​​the Mayorskaya station (approximately where the front line is now), a train crossed its bed, passing under a huge an arch of three pipes, each of which has the diameter of a subway tunnel. And the water pressure in the pipes is enormous: siphon breaks (as this pipe is correctly called) are eliminated using a special engineering vehicle based on the chassis of a heavy tank, and getting a person under the stream gushing from a hole is certain death.

The water issue has been one of the main issues since the start of the war in Donbass. Historians of the future will have to find the answer to the question of why Igor Strelkov and his detachment came to Slavyansk: the choice was too non-random. A railway junction, the Kharkov - Rostov highway, a powerful power plant, water intake structures and pumping stations of two rises of the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal: the combination of all these factors in the city and its environs makes such a place a very tasty morsel.

From the same series - the systematic shelling of water supply enterprises by Bandera. For, as life shows, a person easily adapts to life without electricity and gas, but without water, disaster comes too quickly.

According to the insider information available to the editors of PolitNavigator, some time ago the office of the CP “Water of Donbass” located in Mariupol was visited by very strange guests from Kiev who were interested in the possibility of cutting off the water supply of the DPR, but in such a way as to preserve the water supply of Mariupol, Krasnoarmeysk, Volnovakha and others occupied territories of the southern and western parts of the former Donetsk region. The conversation was long and detailed: the issue of strangling the rebellious Donbass has not been removed from the agenda.

Theoretically, this problem can be solved quite simply. The South Donbass water pipeline originates in the area of ​​​​the village of Panteleimonovka: those driving along the Gorlovka - Donetsk highway have probably more than once paid attention to the water intake structure at the fork at Yenakievo and the bridges over the railway and the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal.

To cut off the water supply to Donetsk, Makeevka and Khartsyzsk (which is about one and a half million people!), it is enough to build a dam on a canal about one and a half kilometers below the water intake structure. In principle, it can be erected right in the area of ​​the bridges, but for the full operation of the hydraulic system, a compensation reservoir is required. And since the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal is shallow and not wide, all that is needed for the construction of the dam is a dozen reinforced concrete blocks used to lay the foundation for the construction of ordinary high-rise buildings, a dozen and a half dump trucks with crushed stone and sand, as well as a pipe to protect against overflow . As they say - cheap and cheerful!

But everything is smooth only on paper: Panteleimonovka has been under the control of the DPR since the beginning of autumn 2014, and the front line runs far enough for the Ukrainian army to take possession of this village with one mighty blow. But even if there is a breakthrough, Bandera’s punitive forces will simply not be able to gain a foothold there: the place is too inconvenient.

What could be the alternative?

Closing the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal in front of the Verkhnekalmius reservoir, located between Yasinovataya, Makeevka and Donetsk in the area of ​​​​the village of Mineralnoye? Taking control of the pumping station in Krinichnaya, in the north-east of Makeyevka? Again, all of the above is from the category of wet dreams of the Kyiv junta: all these objects are located at a sufficient distance from the demarcation line, and the most that the Ukrainian side is capable of is a one-time sabotage with an interruption of water supply for several hours.

It is clear that the Banderaites are not satisfied with this prospect: they do not need a channel, because of which they have to negotiate with the “vatniks and Colorados.” But they can’t do anything about the current situation: the key section of this water artery is not under their control.

However, there is a way out for the Kyiv junta, although it is extremely costly. This is the construction of an alternative line of the Yuzhnodonbass water pipeline from the pumping station of the third rise of the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal in the area of ​​the village of Mayorsk between Gorlovka and Dzerzhinsk to the Karlovskaya filtration station near Krasnoarmeysk.

If the initial part of the current water corridor in the Azov region runs along the front line (we often hear about shelling of its key points - the Donetsk filtration station and the pumping station in Krutaya Balka), then this line will pass in the deep rear. In addition, its construction will kill two birds with one stone: it will be possible to deprive water not only of Donetsk, Makeevka and Khartsyzsk, but also of Gorlovka, Yenakievo, Debaltsevo, Shakhtersk, Torez and Snezhnoye.

Why has Kyiv still not decided to build such a facility? The answer is painfully simple: firstly, money, which is not expected in the meager Ukrainian budget for such large-scale projects. And also because post-Maidan Ukraine has forgotten how to build: how to break - don’t feed it honey, but how to create - so hands don’t grow from there...