After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia's invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage Its answer was to allow women to work underground for the first time in its history
Over a hundred took up the offer
"I took this job because the war started and there were no other jobs," 22-year-old Krystyna said candidly
For five months, she has worked as a technician 470 m below ground, servicing the small electric trains which haul workers more than four kilometres from the lift shaft where they descend to the seams of coal
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Source and Credit: miningweekly.com
