Donbass fuel-energy Company (DTEK) asks Russian suppliers from Kuzbass to explain the reasons for the suspension of the supply of coal, said Last news in the press service of the organization. However, a source in the administration of the Kemerovo region said Tuesday Last news that Kuzbass enterprises continued supply of coal to power companies of Ukraine.

on the first day of the week the Ministry of energy of Ukraine informed that the supply of coal from Russia to DTEK and " Centrenergo " stopped for a while. In DTEK explained that shipment of coal contracts from suppliers Kuzbass stopped for some time in the evening on November 21, despite the fact that the Company has implemented all the required pre-payment contracts.

" We asked our Russian partners with the request to explain the situation, the answer until not received ", - said the press service of DTEK. According to the organization, emerged in Ukraine shortage of coal grades " a " for power plants with August DTEK imported from Russia about 1, 3 million tons of This fuel.

Ukraine is experiencing a shortage of anthracite coal in connection with the operation in the Donbas, where is the vast number of coal mines in the country. The Ukrainian government has agreed with the British Steel Mont Trading on the supply of 1 million tons of coal from South Africa, a quarter of them have already received. However, later as the General Prosecutor's office of Ukraine due to the high cost of coal filed a case under the criminal code of embezzlement, the trader because of the reputational risk has decided to limit the minimum possible supply volumes five hundred thousand tons.

The head of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan, who is also a witness in the criminal case, said on 12 November that the country has supposedly 1, 7 million tons of coal reserves. It is not enough to pass the winter, for this reason, in Kiev there are two options: to purchase coal in the Russian Federation or in the Donbass. Power DND already told that they will not put Kiev coal until the end of hostilities.

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