“In the liberated territories, those mines that operated (until 2014. -

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) - Zolote, Gorskoye - such associations that included mines, they are almost all flooded,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to Pasechnik, all the mines are flooded above the point of no return, the authorities of the republic have practically no opportunity to completely pump out water from them.

Earlier it became known that the Ukrainian military fired ten times from a tank in the direction of the village of the Trudovskaya mine in Donetsk.