Kiev ought to buy about 4 million tons of coal of anthracite For the normal passage of the heating season, said the head of Ministry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn.
"For the heating season, we need somewhere around 4 million tons of anthracite coal in General For burning and accumulation. This is a volume which ought to take from all directions, " demchyshyn said at a press conference on the first day of the week. According to his statement, the coal supply of this brand in the last period of time were active enough from the zone of the special operation in the Donbass.
"Fifteen to 20 thousand tons per day (delivered coal from Donbas - ed.)", - the Minister added.
the vast number of Ukrainian mines is located in the Donbas. Most of them were under the control of militias, and now Kiev is forced to buy imported coal. According to the information received, the Agency, the largest suppliers of coal To Ukraine in January-February 2015 were Russia, the USA and South Africa.
in early summer demchyshyn said that For the next heating season, the country ought to purchase 1, 5 million tons of coal gas group and 1 million tons of anthracite.
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