WASH Cluster Incident Report №279, 06/04/2021
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MAIN PUMPING STATION SHELLED, STOPPED
Voda Donbasa (VD) informed the WASH Cluster about shelling today, Tuesday 6th April near the First Lift Pumping Station (1st LPS) of the South Donbas Waterway. At 4:45 pm, Kyiv time, Vasylivka village was de-energized, as a Power Line (PL) was damaged. Shelling continued and, as a result, a second power line, this one supplying electricity to the Pumping Station itself, was also damaged. The 1st LPS was de-energized at 5:05 pm, and stopped pumping water immediately. One night shift workers at the pumping station took cover in the onsite bomb shelter, but a second is still missing.
Household Economic Resilience Assessment (HERA) Factsheet Government Controlled Areas (GCA) of Donestk and Luhansk Oblasts, Ukraine, January 2021
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CONTEXT
At the end of December 2020, Ukraine had recorded more than 1 million people testing positive to COVID-19 and was experiencing an exponential rise in the number of confirmed cases. According to a report published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the current crisis may lead to the worst economic depression Ukraine has experienced in decades, with sectors such as manufacturing, retail, trade, transportation, exports, and remittances affected by the global lockdown measures.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Ukraine will contract by 8% this year, while the average monthly salary will decrease from 12,500 Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH) at pre-COVID-19 projections to UAH 10,700 post-COVID-19.