{"id":1283119,"date":"2025-08-21T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-swamp-has-remained-from-molochna-melitopol-suffers-from-a-water-shortage\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:31:31","slug":"a-swamp-has-remained-from-molochna-melitopol-suffers-from-a-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-swamp-has-remained-from-molochna-melitopol-suffers-from-a-water-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"A swamp has remained from Molochna: Melitopol suffers from a water shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The water crisis in the occupied territories is gaining momentum. After the TOT of the Donetsk region, the situation is worsening in occupied Melitopol.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/CenterCounteringDisinformation\/15350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by the Center for Countering Disinformation.<\/p>\n<p> Local residents report that the main river of the region is drying up before our eyes. The almost complete disappearance of the Molochnaya is a consequence not only of the Russians&#8217; bombing of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, but also of the actions of the occupation authorities. The barbaric &#8220;cleansing&#8221; with excavators has stopped the flow, and the river has turned into a swamp.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;After water supply disruptions and numerous complaints on hotlines, local Gauleiter were forced to admit the problem. The city&#8217;s occupation administration, trying to reduce the degree of tension, promised to &#8220;quickly eliminate the disruptions.&#8221; But how they plan to do this in conditions of water shortage, they do not say,&#8221; the CPD notes.<\/p>\n<p> Amid the crisis in the water supply system, the occupiers are showing off &#8211; hanging tricolor flags around the city in honor of &#8220;Russian Flag Day.&#8221; Thus, the occupiers once again show that a propaganda image is more important to them than the well-being of people in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-mariupoli-mayzhe-povnistiu-vysokhlo-vodoskhovyshche-misto-mozhe-zalyshytysia-bez-vody\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Starokrymske reservoir in Russian-occupied Mariupol has almost completely dried up. This is the only source of water that supplies the city<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ruskiy-mir-zalyshyv-donechchynu-bez-vody-na-tot-pohirshuietsia-humanitarna-kryza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the water crisis in the occupied Donetsk region has reached a critical level, with water being supplied there once every few days or not at all, and the situation is only getting worse<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water crisis in the occupied territories is gaining momentum. After the TOT of the Donetsk region, the situation is worsening in occupied Melitopol. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation. Local residents report that the main river of the region is drying up before our eyes. The almost complete disappearance of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1184558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874,76878],"class_list":["post-1283119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}