{"id":21783,"date":"2024-02-25T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/welsh-miners-in-country-to-repay-1984-help\/25\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T19:43:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:43:35","slug":"welsh-miners-in-country-to-repay-1984-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/welsh-miners-in-country-to-repay-1984-help\/25\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh miners in country to repay 1984 help"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Ukrainian miner Vasyl Yavorsky donated his own wages to striking Welsh miners in 1984, he never thought that help would one day be returned.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The convoy is supplying much needed aid to miners fighting on the front line, two years after Russian forces invaded.<\/p>\n
“They did not forget about us, just like we didn’t in 1984,” said Vasyl.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“We are mining brothers – I remember the donation box we had, everyone donated as much as they could, and sent it to those miners”, said Vasyl.<\/p>\n
“Now 40 years later we are in need, seeking help, and our English and Welsh friends responded, and are helping our soldiers on the frontlines.”<\/p>\n\n