Miners Rescued After Being Trapped Underground in East Ukraine: Separatists

Miners Rescued After Being Trapped Underground in East Ukraine: Separatists
Ukrainian service members fire a shell from a M777 Howitzer near a frontline in Donetsk Region, on June 6, 2022. Stringer/Reuters
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Seventy-seven miners were rescued on Saturday after being trapped underground during a power outage and Ukrainian’s shelling of territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, local officials said.

The miners were underground when power was lost in the Zasyadko coal mine in Ukraine’s Donetsk region but all were now safe and no one was injured, according to a statement by local separatist officials.