Residents Of Donetsk Claim That A “civil War” Has Broken Out In The City

The situation in the city occupied by Russia is getting worse every day.

A Russian propagandist who traveled to Donetsk and hosts the Telegram channel “Donetskaya Martynova” spoke about large-scale power and communications outages in the occupied city. According to her, the situation in the city is getting worse every day: the internet and television have stopped working, the streets are deserted, and stores have either closed or are running on generators, reports "Dialog".

A video has also surfaced in which a Donetsk resident claims a civil war has broken out among residents of a single building over water.

“We haven’t had water for a year now. A civil war is already breaking out among the neighbors. Please help, or soon the neighbors will be burying each other,” she said.

Even by wartime standards, what was happening came as a shock to her. To post the message, she had to find people who had a generator and access to a different internet provider.

“This morning in Donetsk broke all my records for the entire war. There’s no electricity. There’s no landline internet. No mobile internet. Actually, no cell service either. (The last two have always been the case!) You turn on the TV (powered by a generator)—there’s nothing on. I don’t know if it’s for better or worse, but at least it’s not *Swan Lake*. I made it to some kind people who have a generator and a different internet provider; I’m writing to you from here.

Many traffic lights aren’t working. That said, the traffic I’m seeing is like on a weekend. It’s deserted. Small shops either didn’t open at all or closed much earlier. The bigger ones are running on generators, having turned off their refrigerators.

How did you spend this day of the blackout? Did you go to work? Did you take the day off? I wonder how those heroes in Donetsk are managing on Monday—the ones who work in government agencies or simply have to follow their regular schedules. “My dear friends, I just can’t even imagine!!!!”

According to her description, on Monday morning the streets in her part of town were deserted: “Everyone’s just sitting at home in a daze.” The only sign of activity was near a store selling generators. The author advised people to stock up on cash, assuming that payment terminals might not be working either. Later, readers also told her that the radio wasn’t working.

By evening, she hadn’t seen any significant improvement. In her next post, Martynova wrote that the Leninsky District remained without a normal power supply, the city center was only partially connected, and the state of communications during the day was “catastrophic.” According to local residents she cited, a similar situation was observed throughout virtually the entire city.

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