Donetsk, Jun 20 – DAN. Kiev forces have targeted the first-level pumping station of the Yuzhnodonbasskiy water duct outside Yasinovataya, said DPR representative at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) Ruslan Yakubov.

"At 11.50 a.m., 12.50 p.m. and 1.10 p.m. Kiev's fire was recorded on the direction Kamenka-Vasiliyevka. Fourteen mortar rounds of 82mm caliber have been fired."

The JCCC said the shelling was aimed at disrupting scheduled repair works at the pumping station located outside Vasiliyevka in the "grey zone". No direct hits on infrastructure have been reported.

The first-level pumping station of the Yuzhnodonbasskiy water duct is under the DPR control. Three water treatment plants are connected to the duct, two of them supply water to Kiev-controlled areas. *ot