TORETSK, Ukraine — A rusty winch slowly raises the elevator nearly 4,000 feet from the depths of the Tsentralna coal mine in Toretsk, a city of 67,000 people in the Donbas, an industrial region in eastern Ukraine.
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A worker oversees coal being loaded into train cars at a coal mine in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, in January 2017.
