Wherever the coal came close to the surface, the villagers simply dug a hole in the ground or used the abandoned mining. Like a hundred years ago, the hammer and chisel became the primary instruments of the miner, clawing himself into the ground wherever he finds a modicum of coal.A network of illegal underground coal mines envelops the Donbas region like a spider web, running beneath railway lines, residential houses, cemeteries, shops and administrative buildings.They have changed the landscape, and they have changed lives.