© AFP PhotoA woman cooks over a campfire due to gas cuts in her building on August 3, 2014 in eastern Ukrainian city of Popasna, Lugansk region
250,000 people have been left without water, electricity and communications for over a week in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk. The town is subject to siege conditions and under heavy bombardment.
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We're being bombed so severely, there's hardly anything left to bomb. People are running out of money. How are we supposed to survive in this heat? What if some sort of epidemic breaks out? What should we do?" local woman Nadezhda Essaulinka exclaimed, emotionally.
The local administration says that "pension, salaries, and social benefits haven't been paid. Some employees haven't received their salaries for a month - others for over two-and-a-half months."
Most of the shops in the city are closed, and produce is sold in the streets.
No deliveries of food, medical supplies, or fuel have been reported, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.
Phones are down all over the city and the locations that still have it are sometimes marked with "Shelling zone" signs,
RT's Maria Finoshina said.
A city resident blamed Kiev for what is happening to them.
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We used to have food and water. But now Kiev has completely destroyed our city. There's no water and electricity now, there's nothing," Lidia Ostroverkhova told
RT.
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