"The Military Administration of the city of Herson, through the voice of the former and future mayor Halyna Lubova, posted a message earlier for the citizens of Herson and for all of you, which I will translate here:
"My dear citizens!
Our Water and Sewerage Company has just received strong help to repair the water supply and sewage in regions without water through donations from Romania! Radu Hossu, my friends, you are incredible! Thank you to the Charitable Foundation Mangust [the foundation to which the donations are made - my note].
You have given us a piece of your heart to support our residents! Thank you so much! Tens of thousands of euros have been raised to purchase this vital equipment.
Know that, from now on, when you wake up every morning, you have helped thousands of residents of the Hero City of Herson to have access to water!
Dear residents of Herson: please warmly welcome the help of our closest neighbors from Romania!
Together with them, we visited every flooded point in the water and sewerage network. I thank them for their courage to come to Herson and be with us in the most dangerous areas of the city.
In these points, the employees have no water, no chairs, no closets to change, no kettle to make tea, no table or fridge to put a sandwich, and no spare clothes to change into, and yet they work in these 24/7 strategic civil infrastructure.
31 points of the Water-Sewerage network in Herson have been flooded. 7 of them completely, and 10 of them are wells. The pipelines to the city, like all others, are damaged.
We thank our friends from Romania for their help! The assistance from donations has just begun! Together, we will overcome these difficulties! Together, we will triumph!" - Halyna Lubova
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1. It's true: I have been to the most dangerous points in Herson. The settlements of Sadove and Antonivka (from where the Antonovsky Bridge starts) have come under the authority of the city of #Kherson in order to benefit from the support of the Ukrainian government and international volunteers (including the support of each of you).
These localities are bombarded daily by Russian artillery several times a day. We have been bombarded every day and every night. We heard again the whistling of Russian 122mm and 152mm shells when they fall near us.
A house 2 streets away from us (where I was with the director of Neramo Romania, who helped me from the beginning with all logistics and export-related matters, being an ANCEX-authorized company for a long time) was destroyed by the Russians at 13:46. I recorded the moment on camera, but I will not post the images until the front moves away from the city, so as not to endanger the lives of the people there even more, or the military units advancing towards the eastern bank of the Dnieper.
I have been to the wastewater treatment plant (to put it in Romanian terms: where the water is cleaned from s**t), which was completely flooded after the terrorist attack by the Russians at the Kahovka Dam. Contaminated water with waste reached the Dnieper River, and the effects were observed by many, especially in the northern area of the Romanian coast. Romanian Princess (Yes, a real Princess) @BriannaCaradja personally posted photos of the Romanian beaches in the north full of waste coming from the Herson area. All these effects are the consequences of the Russian terrorist aggression.
I have been to another point, the administrative center of the Water-Sewerage Company Herson, which was bombed, and a 24-year-old engineer, a civilian obviously, was killed. You can see it in the first photo.
2. I am sharing some photos of some of the aid from the first truck sent and which has arrived now. Help that I purchased before starting the "Water for Herson" campaign with my own money partly collected on Patreon, and mostly from what I kept as a buffer from your donations for various emergencies that may arise - and unfortunately, they did arise.
To finish the job, to build first aid points in these areas (where residents can have access to electricity, internet for communication with their relatives, access to medical equipment that works on electricity), and to put the affected Water-Sewerage points in Herson, which serve 120,000 people, back into operation as soon as possible, I invite you to continue supporting the "Water for Herson" campaign.
How? Contact me or use the Patreon link in the BIO.
If you cannot support financially, a like, a share, or a comment that generates interaction with the post, thus fighting against the few Russian and golden trolls who will do everything possible for this post to reach as few people as possible, these actions described above are just as welcome!
3. As Halyna says: Wake up every morning knowing that thanks to you, already several thousand people in the Herson area have access to running water! People! Like me and like you!
And don't forget that she also says: Together, we will triumph! Because this is our fight, all of ours!
Glory to you, Romanians, who know what empathy is and act in any way, no matter how insignificant it may seem (I tell you it's not)!
#SlavaUkraini
GIVEAWAY
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