Special envoy to Kryvyi Rih
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A polar wind sweeps the chasms of the mine, frozen in an icy fog.
Dressed in their overalls, the men squint their way in the cold through the site, which has taken on the appearance of a disused post-Soviet industrial wasteland.
The giant metal wheels operating the cables, which allow the cage of miners to dive into the guts, more than a thousand meters underground, have been stopped for more than a week.
In Kryvyi Rih, home town of President Volodymyr Zelensky, located in the center of the country, industry is paralyzed by Russian bombardments on the country's infrastructure.
"We need
electricity
to operate,
" explains Sergueï Sapsoï, the manager of the Servily Kolachevsky mine of the Metinvest conglomerate - owned by the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the richest man in Ukraine despite the significant losses inflicted by the war.
Only the emergency pumping system works.
It's necessary…
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