As a result of the incident, eight miners were injured. As the chairman of the Donetsk military-civil administration Pavel Zhebrivsky informed, all the victims received burns of different degrees.

First aid took the victims to Kramatorsk hospital. According to the head of the region, the explosion thundered after four o'clock in the afternoon.

At the same time in the mine there were 406 people, directly on the emergency site - 37. All miners are notified of the accident and brought to the surface.

The work on the block ten was suspended until the circumstances and causes of the incident were clarified, "Zhuravsky added. As reported by URA-Inform, on January 20, 2018 in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region in the city of Zhdanovka at the Zhdanovsky mine, an explosion occurred, as a result of the incident, two people were killed. At the time of the explosion in the mine were 316 people. The bodies of the dead miners were raised to the surface, others left alone. Exploded methane-air mixture.