Ukraine war: Welsh miners in country to repay 1984 help
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A convoy drives 2,000 miles from south Wales to Ukraine to repay a 40-year-old favour.

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“They did not forget about us, just like we didn’t in 1984,” said Vasyl.

Communities in Wales affected by the miners’ strike in the 1980s received much-needed support from the former Soviet Union, and from around the world.

It is a four-decades-old bond that bridges a strike and now a war, forged in shared experiences underground.

In Ukraine, there are currently hundreds, if not thousands, of miners fighting on the front lines in the war against Russia.

  • andrew_bidlawEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    Not to say that back in 2014 clashes and provocations started* around Donetsk, one of the most notable mining regions not only in Ukraine, but in the whole ex-USSR, so the first victims to this war were probably miners as well.

    * The first ones actually started way before in Kyiv, but these are the first that included in CTO, now war.