“Employees of coal mines in the occupied Luhansk oblast of Ukraine reported mass layoffs due to the bankruptcy of the owner company and the absence of due payments. This concerns the enterprises ‘Krasny Partizan’, ‘Dolzhanska-Kapitalna’ and the ‘Sverdlov Mine’, which were previously transferred to the Rostov-based LLC ‘Trading House ‘Donskie Ugli’”, - the Telegram channel “The Moscow Times” reported on April 27.
It is noted that at the beginning of January, workers were informed about layoffs within two months “for the purpose of optimizing the structure” and in March the mines were closed, but employees still have not received wages for the days worked in 2026, said a miner from “Krasny Partizan” named Anatolii.
“Since December, when we were last paid, we have not received a single cent. People were simply thrown out onto the street. Neither our management nor the ministry explains anything”, - the man complained.
According to him, on paper employees were credited with due “benefits, leave, compensation”, and these amounts reach up to half a million rubles: “No one has less than 250,000”. Some miners, after layoffs, were offered to work at enterprises in Rostov-on-Don that have not yet been closed, while others were transferred to maintenance work at the closed mines. However, about 1,200 people were left without jobs and means of subsistence, the workers themselves said.