Sunday is a national day of mourning in Ukraine after two mining accidents left at least 32 people dead on Friday.
An explosion at the Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine in the Luhansk region killed at least 24 people. Two miners are still missing.
Eight miners were killed in a separate accident when a piece of heavy machinery collapsed at the Bazhanova pit in the neighboring Donetsk region. Three miners are still unaccounted for.
Deutsche Welle Radio reports the twin disasters were the deadliest in the Ukraine since 2007 when an explosion killed more than 100 people.
