Among the workers is 36-year-old Iryna Ostanko, effusive and athletic, smiling at her fellow coal workers in the cold dawn ... of the coal mine — symbolize just how much war has changed ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running ...

The technology could prove important in countries such as Poland, which suffer cold winters but have plentiful coal mines. The developments come as campaigners in the UK complain that the ...

War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have started working in traditionally male jobs.