Media: Separatist republics in eastern Ukraine halt coal mine operations
Since July 2017 the work of coal enterprises in the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) have been partially suspended, switching to a two-day work week, according to the Russian news agency, REGNUM, citing a source in the so-called ministry of coal and energy of the separatists, as well as an employee of the directorate of the state enterprise Torezantratsit.
As of July 1, 2017, all the enterprises of Torezantratsit, including the enterprises of Shakhterskantratsit and Snezhnoyeantratsit will switch to a two-day workweek. These affected mines are the Lutugino, Progress, Ilovaiskaya, Mine Glubokaya, Udarnik, Zarya, the Central concentrating factory, and others," Torezantratsit stated.
According to the source, workers’ wages will drop sharply: "Now we will only have eight working shifts, instead of 20, per month. Salaries will be cut by more than half."
At the same time, journalist Denis Kazansky specified on his Facebook page that workers from the Makiivka mines have been sent on unpaid vacations, and the work on 11 other mines has been suspended in the LPR (Luhansk People's Republic).
“The thing that I don’t understand is why the patriots in the Donbass are silent. Why does Marmazov not write about the situation in which the miners have found themselves? Where is Pasha Gubarev? It's time to stage a rally. Fascists are destroying the coal industry. Donbas, get up!” Kazansky says ironically.