Russian shelling kills one, traps 148 miners underground in Donetsk region

Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, reported the information.

“As a result of Russian shelling, the mines in the Dobropillia community lost power, leaving 148 miners trapped underground,” he wrote.

Later reports clarified that Russia had attacked a mine owned by the energy company DTEK, killing one miner and injuring three others.

“The attack damaged company facilities and equipment, causing a power outage. At the time, 146 miners were underground, and they are now being brought to the surface,” DTEK reported.

• In early January of this year, the only mine in Pokrovsk, which supplied coking coal to metallurgical plants in Ukraine, ceased operations.