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Fridon Kiria and Thomas Copeland
BBC Monitoring and BBC VerifyWe’ve verified footage posted on the Telegram messaging app that shows a fire burning at a coal mine in the town of Ternivka in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region following a reported Russian drone attack yesterday.
By examining satellite imagery on Google Maps of Ternivka, we were able to identify and match several distinctive features of the mine facilities with those visible in the footage on Telegram.
We also conducted a reverse image search of the footage and confirmed it had not appeared online before.The private Ukrainian energy company DTEK confirmed a strike on one of its mines, and said that “192 mine workers were underground” when it happened.
In a later post on Sunday, DTEK said: “All DTEK miners were successfully brought to the surface after a large-scale enemy attack. None of the colleagues were harmed.”
The company noted that this was the fourth large-scale...
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