The protesting Miners blocked the traffic on the Central street of Kiev - Khreschatyk street near the building of the Ministry of energy and coal industry.
Drivers trying to come to a common opinion With the miners on the unlocking movement ended inconclusively, reports " news Agency ". First organized a protest in Kiev Miners declared an indefinite strike.
As reported by the miners, They will not leave Kiev, Until does not fulfill all their requirements. The main one is not to close the mine and not to cut pensions for working miners. Some miners came their spouses are also employed in the coal mines of limousine and crane operator." We are from a mining village of Donbass, other work there. If you close the mine, the village will die out, " said Marina Egorenko, lamusica, wife of a miner from the Union of the opponents. Before Wednesday stated that the building of the Ukrainian Parliament gathered about 1, 5 thousand Miners. They demanded a meeting With the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada in order to voice their demands regarding the situation in the coal industry and the non-payment of debt. Before this it was declared that more than five hundred Ukrainian miners broke through 1st cordon of protection on Bankova street in Kiev and came close to the administration building of President Petro Poroshenko. Recall, on Tuesday, the Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine has announced its intention to close and be preserved Until the end of year eleven mines. On the same day, Congress passed the coal miners of Ukraine, at which They adopted a resolution on the statement by the President of Ukraine on dismissal of the Minister of energy and coal industry Vladimir Demchishin. The miners also demanded to convene a meeting of the national security Council, which must be worked out measures to resolve the crisis in the coal industry. It was announced that the accumulation of coal in the warehouses of Ukrainian thermal power plants fell below the thresholds, amounting to 800 thousand tons of coal on the status at the beginning of April. Today, the lack of capacity in the power system of Ukraine is 2 thousand Megawatts. In addition, it was claimed that the Kiev authorities now control only 35 mines of 95, the rest are under the control of militias in the Donbass. VIDEO

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