DND said about partial suspension of coal mining because of the Ukrainian blockade

Kiev is blocking the supply of wood to the site of the Donetsk people's Republic, due to the shortage of wood as part of mine for a while stopped the production of coal, said Thursday in a press-service of the Ministry of coal and energy of the DPR.
"1 thousand tons of coal produced, the urban forest is 90-100 cubic meters. Within the Donetsk people's Republic forest is almost there. Some time ago the wood for the production of supports delivered from the territory of Ukraine. Today it has become almost unreal - the Ukrainian Authorities block the delivery, citing the fact that the forest belongs to strategic raw materials", - has told RIA "news" in a press-service of Mingle DNR.



DNR authorities are trying to resolve the issue of wood supply, stressed the press service." Coal on the Ukrainian territory will not be shipped only if full payment, but subject to the renewal of timber supplies to the site of DNR. Formula interaction only simple, for every 100 tons shipped to Ukraine coal in the Republic is required to be delivered 30 tonnes of timber. Taking into account the fact that most of the thermal power plants of Ukraine is working on coal produced from the mines of the DNI, the termination of the shipment in the near future increases the probability of the cast to very undesirable consequences for her ", ? added in the Ministry. Remember, in April the Government of Donetsk national Republic stated that stops the supply of the Donbass coal to Ukraine if the Ukrainian side will not return to the mines DNR empty wagons. In early summer it was claimed that " mine to them. Kiselyov " for the previous months has shipped for Ukrainian Centrenergo about 350 thousand tons of coal and entered into a contract for production and delivery of 1, 2 million tons of anthracite." Centrenergo ", for its part, has paid the company about 100 million UAH for delivered Coal. According to the Ministry of energy price 1, 1 thousand UAH per ton, this amount corresponds to about 90 thousand tons of coal. April 20, the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn said that the Kiev Authorities now control only 35 mines of 95, the rest are under the control of militias in the Donbass. March 13, Demchyshyn reported that Coal from the territory of the DND and LNR began again to be delivered to Ukraine.


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