Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has announced his ministry's plans to submit draft bylaws of state-owned enterprise National Coal Company at the next government meeting to bring all state-run coalmines under one umbrella company.
A truck with local residents on June 12 hit an anti-tank mine near the village of Bairak on the outskirts of the town of Horlivka occupied by military forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR"), resulting in two injured civilians, according to a report released by OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine on June 17.
The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and SIPRI have released a new global report of anti-vehicle mine incidents in 2016, where Ukraine alone accounted for 24% of global casualties, followed by Mali, Pakistan and Syria, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
One civilian killed and another wounded in an explosion due to triggering a trip-wire actuating device planted by the Russian-backed militants, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry posted on Facebook.