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Donbas coal miners: work in war-torn Eastern Ukraine

83 mines are located in the areas controlled by the militias of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics which was about 38 percent of the Ukrainian coal production in 2013

According to Forbes Ukraine, 83 mines were located in the areas controlled by the militias of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics at the beginning of November. Shelling, power cut offs and backdated wages are the problems that coal workers have to face in these regions. How the coal miners work in war-torn Eastern Ukraine - in photo gallery by TASS