This caused fear that they can capture it and use tunnels to bypass Ukrainian positions. The miners, along with the military, started drilling wells under the mine to lay the explosive. The mine managed to blow up a few days, about December 20. "Everything has fallen, and now it's all rocks," one of the employees of the mine with 19 years of experience Artem Telegin told reporters.
The manager of the metallurgical company Metinvest BV, which owns the mine, told the publication on the conditions of anonymity that the explosives were also laid in two other mines of the enterprise west, near the villages of Kottelne and success. It is not clear at present, it was possible to put them into action. Mine, located near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coke coal, the necessary steel industry of Ukraine. She worked until the last moment until the Russian troops came close.
After the start of a full -scale invasion in 2022, work on it was partially stopped. However, next year, coal production on it recovered to 3. 2 million tonnes, approaching the pre -war level. Then about 4,500 people worked at the enterprise. In the summer of 2024, the mine produced 7000 tons of coal on the day of this summer. However, as of mid -December, production has fallen to almost 2000 thousand tons.
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