Ukraine war: Welsh miners in country to repay 1984 help
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A convoy drives 2,000 miles from south Wales to Ukraine to repay a 40-year-old favour.

“They did not forget about us, just like we didn’t in 1984,” said Vasyl.

Communities in Wales affected by the miners’ strike in the 1980s received much-needed support from the former Soviet Union, and from around the world.

It is a four-decades-old bond that bridges a strike and now a war, forged in shared experiences underground.

In Ukraine, there are currently hundreds, if not thousands, of miners fighting on the front lines in the war against Russia.

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    However, a group of Welsh miners have now loaded up on medicine and supplies and driven from south Wales to Kyiv to repay the old favour.

    The convoy is supplying much needed aid to miners fighting on the front line, two years after Russian forces invaded.

    He was joined on the journey by fellow former miner Carwyn Donovan and Welsh-Ukrainian Member of the Senedd Mick Antoniw, who has had relatives killed in the war.

    One of those impacted by their visit to the UK was Mykhailo Volynets, the now-president of KVPU, the independent Union of Ukrainian miners, who welcomed the Welsh convoy in Kyiv.

    Although Mr Volynets said his attempts to set up independent trade union in Ukraine led to an “order to kill me and my family, and my son was kidnapped, but he managed to survive”.

    He would eventually find success in 1989, leading over a million miners on strike in the USSR, which preceded the break-up of the Soviet Union.

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