1/ Russian warblogger Dmitriy Steshin says he nearly lost his sight in both eyes due to an amoebic infection acquired from showering in Donetsk's filthy water. It highlights the health risks of the current water crisis in Russian-occupied Ukraine. ⬇️
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1937937216086458484
2/ The destruction of the Soviet-built Donets-Donbas canal during the current war has cut off the Russian-occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions from their principal source of water. Both regions are otherwise naturally arid.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1952626548357407228
3/ As a result, the entire region has been undergoing what locals are calling a "water genocide", causing a critical shortage of water. What little water remains is badly contaminated by broken infrastructure and leaks from abandoned mines.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1951027952386228258
4/ Tap water is often filthy, undrinkable, and only available for a few hours every few days. People are now having to rely on purchased or donated bottled water, if they can obtain it, scavenge water from leaking pipes, or filter the tap water and hope for the best.
5/ Dmitry Steshin, a prominent Russian warblogger, presumably thought it was safe to use as a shower water, but ended up with an infection of acanthamoeba keratitis in both eyes after doing so. He writes: 
6/ "This is the first morning that I can see normally and am writing these lines with quiet joy. For three weeks, my vision was unfocused, like that of a frozen perch.
7/ "I reacted to moderate light like a Ukrainian politician at a meeting in Anchorage — I immediately started crying. In bright sunlight, I behaved like a vampire — I closed my eyes and hid.
8/ "This was especially convenient while driving at 110 km/h — the sun came out from behind the clouds and started to blind me — I looked at the road with one eye and tried to close the other. Not for long, you tell yourself — just for a second!
9/ "The car swerves, other drivers give way to the madman. Convenient. When I was driving to a meeting with the Minister of Defence, I thought — I won't make it, I'll have to call an ambulance helicopter... But there was no time for that, I got there on sheer willpower.
10/ "No one at home knew what was happening to me. They dripped Albucid and applied tea bags to amuse the ophthalmologists later. By the way, the tea bags made it easier, so I still recommend them.
11/ "Don't take Azerchay, only our Orthodox ‘Greenfield’ in Armenian packaging from the Moscow region.
12/ Doc Jasser diagnosed me in the clinic elevator, although it's quite an exotic diagnosis - ‘acanthamoeba keratitis’. You have amoebas under your eyelids, and they are literally eating your cornea, piece by piece, munching away...
13/ "‘A rare disease in which Acanthamoeba amoebas penetrate the cornea of the eye. This can lead to irreversible vision impairment or blindness.’ I was only able to have my eyes examined after receiving painkillers.
14/ "While waiting for the anaesthetic to take effect, I tried to remember:
Where did I catch it?
And then I remembered.
Where did I catch it?
And then I remembered.
15/ "I got the amoebas in Donetsk, with the help of a life hack called ‘breaking the system.’ When I left in the morning on military affairs, I put a black ‘construction’ bucket of water outside. When I came back, it was hot! Success! Long live fluffy soap and fragrant towels!
16/ "As they noticed at the clinic, I had created a 15-litre ‘Petri dish’ for myself, for cultivating all kinds of infections on an industrial scale. I can't even imagine what's going on in the cubic tanks or blue 200-400 litre containers in Donetsk apartments.
17/ "What is being infused there and what forms of life are emerging? In the last month, water for Donetsk has been scraped together from various sources, so it's not certain that the life hack is to blame. It's just not meant for washing or drinking. And there's no other water.
18/ "And how long it stood in fifty five-litre containers in the kitchen and bathroom is unknown."
Steshin blames Ukraine for "the suffering of the martyred city of Donetsk", accusing it of having destroyed the canal.
Steshin blames Ukraine for "the suffering of the martyred city of Donetsk", accusing it of having destroyed the canal.
19/ It's clear, though, that the canal was destroyed by both sides in the course of the fighting, as it has defined the front line for long distances. /end
Source:
t.me/DmitriySteshin…
Source:
t.me/DmitriySteshin…
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