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After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia's invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage. "I took this job because the war started and ...
Although the industry is often associated with the coal-rich Donets basin in the east of the country, other coal mining regions include the Lviv-Volhynian basin and the Dnieper brown coal mining basin. The Donets basin is Ukraine's most developed and largest coal mining region. In 2013, Ukraine was the third largest coal producer in Europe.
Russia's invasion has thrown up huge challenges for Ukraine's coal mines, from the danger posed by air strikes to the departure of miners for the front to fight. But pits are still producing coal ...
Eastern shaft of the Zasyadko coal mine. Local cemetery seen on the foreground is the burial place for most of the victims. Location of Donetsk (red) and Donetsk Oblast (pink) on the map of Ukraine. The 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster was a mining accident that happened on November 18, 2007 at the Zasyadko coal mine (Ukrainian: Шахта ім.
One of the largest coal mines in Ukraine is located in the village. The mine is operated by the Pokrovsk Mine Management. [9] Because of the Russian war of aggression, the site is under constant danger of shelling. [10] In July 2021, an explosion occurred in the coal mine, injuring 10 miners in the blast.
The coal mine in the eastern Ukraine town of Pokrovsk, a supplier of coking coal vital for the steel industry, is still operating despite the approach of Russian forces, an industry source said on ...
The Zasyadko Mine is one of the most dangerous coal mines in the world due to naturally high levels of gas (particularly methane) and coal dust explosion hazards. [3] [8] Additionally, gradual exhaustion made the mine as large as having 6 shafts and, most importantly, very deep. As of 2004, depths of excavation varied from 529m to 1270m.
The strikes soon spread throughout the Kuznetsk Basin and the Soviet Union. On 17 July, miners in Ukraine's eastern Donbas joined the strikes as 2,000 miners from the city of Makiivka walked out of work. [21] They were joined by workers in the smaller Lviv-Volyn coal basin in western Ukraine. [22]