Thirteen miners remained trapped in an underground Ukrainian coal mine Monday following the rescue of 23 others, a spokeswoman for a mine safety group said. Twenty-one men have been located alive, the spokeswoman told RIA Novosti of the latest to be found.

Ukrainian officials said Monday the fate of 34 trapped coal miners was unknown after the rescue of two other cave-in victims. A methane explosion Sunday morning at the coal mine in Donetsk, Ukraine, caused a mine collapse, trapping workers about 2,450 feet underground, Itar-Tass reported.

KYIV. June 8 (Interfax) - First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov said a Ukrainian coal mine where an explosion early on Sunday trapped 37 workers underground would be flooded within hours and that a rescue team was making its way to them through debris.

Excerpt from report by private Ukrainian news agency UNIAN Yenakiyeve, 8 June: The Prosecutor-General's Office has opened a criminal case into the accident at the Karl Marx mine in Yenakiyeve, Donetsk Region [which happened today], Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov told a briefing at the mine today.

Threats by the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom to reduce gas supplies to Ukraine are aimed at forcing the Yuliya Tymoshenko cabinet to keep gas intermediaries on the national market, First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov has said.