The mine came under fire

After the resumption of work, the Komsomolets mine in Kirovsky, which is located in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, was subjected to shelling from large artillery pieces. All the miners who were doing the work at the time of the attack below were brought to the surface in time.

According to information that came from the press service of the Donbass Fuel and Energy Company, whose head is Rinat Akhmetov, the shelling resumed on the afternoon of October 18, on Saturday, and lasted for about three hours in total. As a result of the shelling, one of the power transmission towers was damaged. Therefore, the mine lost its electrical power. Due to a sudden power outage, it became impossible to operate the pumps to drain the mine, so Komsomolets is flooded.

Seven miners, who were working deep underground at the time of the power outage, were lifted up ten minutes later with the help of a special generator that can run on diesel fuel and is designed for just such cases. Heavy artillery shells hitting the territory also damaged some industrial facilities, causing considerable damage to them.

The mine had already managed to extract about three hundred tons of coal after more than a month's downtime and was fully ready to put two longwalls into operation. But the shelling, which began in the second half of October, does not allow it to fully function. The same note contains a request to those shelling on behalf of the head of the Donbass Fuel and Energy Company, Rinat Akhmetov, not to destroy the working mine.