Ukraine: The Battle For Soledar’s Salt Mines

By Oleksandr Miasyshchev

Serhiy (not his real name) remembers when the last load of salt left Soledar.

“The last trucks left on May 16,” the 39-year-old miner told IWPR. “The very next day, a Russian air bomb fell near the administration building, tearing out the doors and windows. A colleague of mine was close to the...