{"id":2916,"date":"2026-04-06T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:31:05","slug":"more-than-40-trapped-underground-after-strike-on-coal-mine-in-russian-controlled-luhansk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2916\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 40 trapped underground after strike on coal mine in Russian-controlled Luhansk region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> struck \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/understandingwar.org\/research\/russia-ukraine\/russian-occupation-update-november-6-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bilorichenska coal \u200bmine<\/a> in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region, damaging a \u200bpower \u200csubstation \u2060and leaving 41 \u200cmine workers trapped underground, a \u2060Russian-installed official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the relevant \u200bservices are \u200ctaking steps to rescue the miners and \u200crestore power to \u200bthe mine,\u201d Leonid Pasechnik, the Moscow-appointed head of the \u200bregion, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260404-russian-drone-strike-on-ukraine-market-kills-five-wounds-19\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russian drone strike on Ukrainian market kills five, Moscow intensifies attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He \u200bsaid that \u200bthe contact with the \u200bminers had already been established, and that they had a \u2060supply of drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine struck \u200bthe Bilorichenska coal \u200bmine in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region, damaging a \u200bpower \u200csubstation \u2060and leaving 41&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[385,73,5,2841,372,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-2916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-attack","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-mining","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}