Oleksandr Miasyshchev

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Oleksandr Miasyshchev is a Ukrainian journalist from Izium, Kharkiv region, who has been covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for both national and international media, including The Guardian, openDemocracy and Radio Lodz.

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Soledar, the town in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk, is home to Europe’s largest salt deposits: a vast, cavernous network of underground tunnels extending for about 200 kilometres. Such is the scale of the mines that geologists claim that less than five per cent of the seam has been removed since industrial mining began in 1881. Explored reserves amount to about five billion tonnes. © Artemsil

Ukraine: The Battle for Soledar’s Salt Mines

Russians took control of the symbolic town with commercial as well as strategic purposes in mind.

9 Mar 23

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