International journalists are broadcasting the world events that are hardening Ukrainians and showing the extraordinary efforts that every Ukrainian is making to win as soon as possible. One of DTEK Energy's mines was visited by journalists from the Associated Press one of the world's largest news agencies, including photographer Yevgeniy Maloletka and journalist Vasilisa Stepanenko. The journalists filmed a report on how, deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the country's war effort and to provide civilians with light and heat.

  • Today, the country’s energy independence is more than a priority.
  • The work of the coal miners cannot fully compensate for the loss of energy from nuclear power plants, but every megawatt they had a role in generating reduced gaps.

“We come and work with optimism, trying not to think about what is going on outside the mine,” a miner named Serhii said. “We work with a smile and forget about it. And when we leave, then another life begins (for us), of survival and everything else”,

said DTEK`s energy worker.

Read the full story here – Associated Press
Photo - AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka