Miners plan to hold a strike demanding from the authorities, among other things, the dismissal and criminal prosecution of the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik.

“The miners are prepared to march to Kiev in a week. They are making addresses to members of the parliament and the prime minister”, a parliament member Sergey Shakhov said.

According to him, the miners union meeting discussed the possibility of disruption of the heating season because of the strike.

The miners also demand clearing salary debts, returning subventions and modernizing state mines.

In July state miners demanded their salary debts to be cleared. After that Nasalik went on a holidays for 2 weeks. (Ukrainian metal)

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