Coal production in Ukraine during the fighting has decreased in 3 times, said 1st Deputy Minister of energy and coal industry Yuriy Zhukov. " we currently operate 24 state of mine. About 50 are on life support is pumping water aeration. There are about fifteen mines completely destroyed. There's even water is not swinging. Broken surface buildings, complexes, copra and substations, " said Zhukov in an interview to UNIAN." If the previous state of the mine has produced about 70 thousand tons of coal per day, currently 20 thousand Tons. In August, we got only 700 thousand tons of coal, and this despite the fact that a few months ago was extracted under two million. Almost 3 times decreased Production. Respectively, decreased and sale of coal, " said Zhukov." for all the fighting we lost presumably billion UAH, which were required to get from the sale of coal, " he said. The official says that the stopping of shafts guilty of the militia, who, according to him, export coal mines for sale in Russian Federation. Previously Authorized the Ministry of energy of Ukraine told that because of fighting in the Donbass country has for the first time over a long period to start to import steam coal for power plants. For example, it was announced that Ukraine has signed an agreement with South Africa on the delivery of 1 million tons of coal. His Ukrainian coal power plants will only last until November, said before the independent trade Union of miners of the country. According to him, at the beginning of September in warehouses TPP were 1, 7 million tons of coal. Wrote print edition LOOK, stop mining coal in the Donbass threatens Ukraine's energy disaster.
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