Ukrainian miners blocked the highway Kovel-Lviv Volyn region and require payments of debts on a salary, said on the first day of the week the head of the independent trade Union of miners of Ukraine Mykhaylo Volynets.

before Volynets reported that in connection with wage arrears miners have plans to block the route to picket the presidential administration of Ukraine in Kiev and declared a hunger strike. According to him, the debt on a salary to miners " Mine? 1 "Novovolynsk" is About 687 thousand dollars.

"About a hundred miners, and intimidated before, blocked the highway Kovel - Lviv. Every fifteen minutes pass firefighters and ambulances. Another group of miners are preparing to go to Kiev, " wrote Volynets.

This is not the first strike of Ukrainian coal miners from-for debts on a salary. Before they came to Kiev and staged rallies in the city center, the authorities promised to pay debts.

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