“What’s happening with the coal mining industry today reminds me of the 1990s, only now it’s in conditions of armed conflict,” Kostyantyn Ilchenko tells me. By the “1990s”, Ilchenko means the chaotic restructuring and funding problems that gripped Ukraine’s mining industry after the Soviet collapse.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Military veterans patrol near a coal train they blockaded. It was traveling from the Russian-occupied territories at Kryvy Torets station on Feb. 14, 2017.
