For a long time, homes in Ukraine's southern beach front city of Mykolaiv have been without clean drinking water.
Military and UN specialists have told a BBC examination they accept Russian powers purposely cut off the water supply last April.
Satellite symbolism and information propose the pipeline to the city was intentionally obliterated while under Russian control.
Obliterating assets fundamental for non military personnel life is broadly viewed as infringement of worldwide helpful regulation.
Yet, lately Russia has additionally designated Ukraine's power and water foundation, provoking deficiencies the nation over.
Lining in the road in Mykolaiv to gather clean drinking water is hazardous as the city is near the forefront and is frequently shelled. Since Russia's attack it has stayed under Ukrainian control.
"You are remaining in line. It's horribly frightening to go out, God deny something will fly in now," says Anya, a 36-year-old mother who escaped to Mykolaiv from the adjoining Kherson locale under Russian occupation.
Occupants like Anya, who additionally focuses on four different individuals from her family, do approach what is called specialized water in their homes, yet it can't be utilized for drinking or cooking.
In any event, washing in it excites their skin. "It is actually quite pungent. It has a brown, greenish variety," she says.
These are the circumstances that occupants have needed to persevere for quite some time after the water supply to the city was cut off.
Proof gathered by the BBC focuses to this being a conscious demonstration by Russian powers.
In April this year, a Ukrainian media source distributed the above pictures which it says show harm made by Russian powers Mykolaiv's just water supply pipeline.
The BBC has investigated satellite and online entertainment pictures which back up this case.
We acquired the satellite picture beneath, which different sources affirm shows a similar area as the Ukrainian media source's photographs.
It uncovers that the pipeline was harmed at its most delicate point - where it rises to the top from underneath the ground.
A source in Mykolaiv let the BBC know that the pipeline had spilled for close to eight hours after it was broken on 12 April, losing an expected 40 million liters of water, before the stock to it was cut off.
Investigation of the geography of the region shows the water from the hole ought to have streamed south of the pipeline.
The underneath picture, from the informing application Wire and geolocated by the BBC, affirms that a region in the way of the normal flooding was for sure soaked overwhelmingly of water.
As well as affirming that this segment of the pipeline was harmed, the BBC has likewise found satellite pictures showing Russian powers close by.
Four tanks should be visible near the line in the picture beneath, at time when the legislative head of Mykolaiv, Vitaly Kim, affirmed to the BBC that the region was under Russian control. He says plans had been made to fix the pipeline however they couldn't go on as it was "a functioning military position".
The BBC likewise met Dmytro Butrii, who was at the time the banished legislative head of the Kherson district, at a mysterious area. He gave us more insights concerning the endeavors to fix the pipeline saying "there were exchanges [with the Russians] directed by the experts in Mykolaiv" yet possessing powers "didn't permit the maintenance group to get to the site".
-Source: BBC