"Nearly 200 miners trapped as Russia attacks DTEK coal mine in Central Ukraine", 19 October 2025

Russian forces attacked a coal mine operated by Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, in the Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, leaving nearly 200 miners trapped underground, the company said Sunday.

The attack came almost exactly three years after Moscow launched its campaign to cripple Ukraine’s power grid – a strategy it has revived each winter in an effort to plunge the country into darkness and cold...

The company said the attack marks the fourth Russian attack on its coal facilities in the past two months.

All miners were later safely brought to the surface, according to the company’s report.