The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.

02/07/2025 February 7, 2025 Russia says it has captured the key mining town of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine after months of fighting. Ukraine has already lost the output from a crucial coal mine in ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

One Miner Dies, Two Trapped in Slovenia Coal Mine Accident (Reuters) - One miner died and rescuers were trying to reach two others trapped after water and mud poured into underground tunnels at ...

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Friday (February 7, 2025) that its forces had captured the coal mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...