Schools and social facilities in Mariupol connected to electricity

Employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry supply local residents with water in Mariupol. Archival photoDONETSK, June 2 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People's Republic has connected schools and social facilities in Mariupol to electricity, to water — two districts of the city, head of the department Alexei Kostrubitsky told RIA Novosti. «We have already supplied electricity to Mariupol. More than 500 houses have already been supplied with electricity, and social facilities — hospitals, schools — have already been supplied with electricity.The fact is that the substation transformers are very badly damaged, very badly destroyed, therefore, of course, our main task is to provide electricity, water to all houses , to all districts, but because of the destruction it is impossible to do so quickly,» he said. sister city relationsAccording to Kostrubitsky, «we have already given water to two districts — Oktyabrsky and Primorsky, that is, there is already water supply in these areas.» «Now we are engaged in and the task has been set for the enterprises of the State Unitary Enterprise Voda Donbass to supply to the Ilyichsky district and supply the settlement of Sartana, which is like a satellite city. That is, we plan another week and supply one more district,» the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR noted .At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On May 20, 2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the complete liberation of the territory of the Mariupol metallurgical plant «Azovstal» — the underground facilities of the enterprise, in which the Ukrainian military and militants of the Azov regiment were hiding (against whom criminal cases were initiated in the Russian Federation), came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Pensions and social benefits will be paid in Mariupol from June