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epa10113517 A picture taken during a visit to Luhansk region organised by the Russian military shows miners preparing a coal-plow machine at Dolzhanskaya-Kapital mining in Dolzhansk, Luhansk region, Ukraine, 09 August 2022 (issued 10 August 2022). Of the 1,100 miners who worked at the mine, 430 went to the front, and their positionas were replaced by women. Aroung 1,000- to ,500 tonnes of coal per day are extracted at Dolzhanskaya-Kapital mining. On 24 February 2022 Russian troops entered the Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'Special Military Operation', starting an armed conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY