Power supply to the Donetsk Zasiadko mine has been restored and all the workers have been raised to the surface, the Donetsk City Council said in a report posted on its official website.
“The last miner was brought to the surface from the Zasiadko mine at 4:30 a.m. on August 29. Power supply to the mine has been restored,” says the report posted on Aug. 29.
The mine suffered a power outage after a high-voltage cable had been damaged on August 28. More than a hundred workers were trapped inside.
The Donetsk region state administration said later that 104 miners had been raised to the surface, and the DTEK energy holding reported the evacuation of 168 men.
DTEK put a temporary power supply system into place at 11:30 a.m. but the mine had another blackout at 2:50 p.m. because the shelling.
The Donetsk City Council said 41 miners remained trapped as of 7 p.m. on Aug. 28.
