Thirty years ago, massive miners’ strikes began in the region of Donbas. They started in Russia’s Kuzbass on July 10, 1989, and spread to Ukraine’s Donetsk region a week later. Half a million miners suspended their work.
Hromadske: Donbas miners recall protests of the ‘90s
A miner smokes prior to taking a lift with his brigade to go 1,300-meters down, Sept. 10, 2003, at Skochinsky mine, one of the deepest and most dangerous, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
