The first winter month is almost over, and not all apartments are heated in occupied Luhansk oblast. So Russia liberated the residents of Luhansk oblast from everything, including heating season.
The statements of the occupying "authorities" are eloquent:
"The LPR is almost 100% ready for the heating season... Luhansk - 99.2%."
The head of the "LPR" group Leonid Pasichnyk tells about heating season.
It is important that such figures were given at the end of October (!). In November, after indignation of the residents of the oblast, the leader of the "LPR" Leonid Pasichnyk convened a meeting at which admitted that readiness for heating season is not 100%.
Appartments in the old occupied territories of Luhansk oblast that were captured by Russian troops in 2014 will be provided with heat supply, but the main part of the heating networks was destroyed during the fighting in the newly occupied territories.
So at the meeting regarding Sievierodonetsk raion it was announced:
"In Sievierodonetsk, the housing stock is 63% ready for winter, boiler houses are 87%. A representative of the Territorial Development Fund reported that the repair of heating mains in the city would be completed by December 1".
On November 30, it was reported that the heating line is only 46.9% ready. Therefore, the occupiers were unable to prepare the city for winter in a year, and repair work began only with the onset of cold weather. Today, is significant part of the city of Sievierodonetsk looks like this:
According to a man who regularly travels to the occupied cities, heating is "at a minimum" in Sievierodonetsk and there are very few residents:
"Heating now in the city is at a minimum. People are freezing. The heat in the system is maintained so that the batteries and pipes do not freeze. There is almost no payment for heat now. Imagine the situation: for the whole the restored nine-story building has only a few apartments, in where people actually live, and they don’t pay for heat... They say that the central boiler room (at the depot) will be turned on in March, now there is a major repairs and restoration work are in full swing. Maybe next winter it will be warmer in the apartments."
There are problems with heating in administrative buildings. Collaborators sit in outerwear at meetings:
“On Partizanskaya Street, nothing is being repaired, they don't even repair windows. However, they bring receipts for electricity for 4 thousand rubles a month. The second winter we will again use a heater,” the resident of Sievierodonetsk Lyudmila Andreeva said.
Lysychansk, according to the occupation administrations, has the most difficult position regarding heating season. Although the infrastructure of Lysychansk survived more after the hostilities compared to, for example, Sievierodonetsk.
The difficult situation is confirmed by a Russian who was on a business trip to Lysychanska (according to him, as a civilian specialist, without specifying the field activities):
"The situation is the following: we need to give light to the people in Lysychansk, where the majority areas have been without electricity for more than a year. According to the staffing schedule, in addition to workers and engineers, sappers and a medic are needed".
Meanwhile, resources of Tatarstan (it was Tatarstan that took the patronage of Lysychansk) reported that heat was additionally connected to 32 facilities in the occupied city, and previously it should already be in 100 apartments buildings.
The photo shows real sutiation in Lysychansk with household utilities:
This is a street toilet in an occupied city, which the locals made from boxes from combat kits.
It's good that caps do not prevent propaganda from getting into children's heads. Another photo from one of the schools in occupied Lysychansk:
It is too early to talk about heating season in Rubizhne, because the occupying administration still has not installed windows in the damaged housing. The occupiers plan to do this in spring, in March-April 2024:
With the onset of cold weather, there are more posts of the "scream of the soul" in Luhansk public chats:
Residents of Alchevsk decided to write a collective appeal to the Putin's "direct line":
“Global problems with heat supply, according to administration reports, heating is running at 98%, but in fact, most residents have cold radiators in their apartments and there is 10°C. Many locals contacted the administration of Alchevsk, Luhansk, Vologda (region chief) Moscow. There are only excuses and nothing is done.”
However, surprisingly, this question was not discussed live.
Small settlements of Luhansk oblast will survive the second winter without heating and, in most cases, without household utilities at all. For example, the village of the city type Syrotyne, which is located only 6 km from Sievierodonetsk, awaits a difficult winter.
In one of her posts, a Russian volunteer talked about a woman from Syrotyne, who has been living without light, water and heat for the second year:
A woman has been surviving for the second year in a house where there is no light, no water, no central heating or any other heating.
Just imagine, you have to go a kilometer to get water and carry buckets back. To have at least a little warmth, you need to go into the forest and collect wood, and then you chop it with an axe, you have to cook food on the stove...
In most of the villages of Sievierodonetsk raion, there is a similar situation due to the inactivity of the local "authorities". For example — another village — Toshkivka (Hirske community, Sievierodonetsk raiom). According to the Russian volunteer, people still live in this house.
There is no question of heating here, because no one even disassembled the rubble.
"Two more children were born, about 50 people live here," - the one says in the video.
Therefore, the picture of the occupation media differs significantly from the reality in which the people of Luhansk oblast have to live today.
Author: Valeriia Melnik
