The foreign Ministry said the circumstance with drinking water in the Donbas the failures of international law
The situation with the problem of water supply in the settlements of Donbass is a blatant failures of international humanitarian law, said Commissioner of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on problems of human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov.

The situation With the problem of water supply in the settlements of Donbass is a blatant failures of international humanitarian law, said Commissioner of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on problems of human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov.
"the document is a detailed information about the growing problems With water supply in the settlements of Donbass. According to experts of the OSCE, as of July 2015 unhindered access to clean drinking water was limited to 1, 3 million of the population of Donbass", - has explained its Debts, the report of the special monitoring missioi OSCE in Ukraine " On access to water in conflict-affected areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ", reports RIA " Novosti ".
The diplomat said that the main causes of this catastrophic situation in a report called the destruction a result of attacks, the decrees of the Ukrainian authorities to limit the freedom of movement of goods or water, etc. Directly Reported about the fact that the Ukrainian authorities deliberately stopped the water in Pervomaisk, Stakhanov and Kirovsk and Bryanka authorized diplomatic vedomctva has described this situation as a gross violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, the provisions of the international Covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, 16 December 1966, of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva conventions of 12 August 1949, and the Final act of the Helsinki summit of 1992. Dolgov said that divides the output of an hmm and about the fact that lack of access to water not only represents a long-term real risk to the lives of people of Donbass, but also may cause an exacerbation of tension in the conflict area." Consider a Prime requirement for Kiev termination of any action, leading to exacerbate the already disastrous humanitarian situation in the Donbass. To deprive of drinking water civilians √ cynical medieval method of war. Call upon the international community, including relevant human rights organizations and structures to provide proper effective impact on the Ukrainian authorities ", - has drawn the attention of the Commissioner of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on problems of human rights. Remember, in the last month of summer it was announced that the Resort filtering station in Donetsk region stopped work because of stop of supply of electric energy as a result of the fire, without water remained eight cities and towns. 1 September in the Donbass began a ceasefire, which the parties to the conflict agreed on 26 August in Minsk during the last meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine. In recent months the situation in the Donbass deteriorated badly. Despite the cease-fire, which turned out to come to a common opinion in February this year, the attacks between the forces of the Ukrainian army on one side and the LPR and the DPR and return continued. In DND stated that the slightest provocation on the amount of equipment and forces, which Kiev pulled up to the line of contact in Donbas, increases the likelihood of a reduction to full-scale hostilities. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of August, the victims of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine began about 7, 9 thousand People, at least 17, 6 thousand Received damage to health.