The Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine informed about temporary suspension of coal supplies from Russia to Ukrainian organizations, reason not specified.
" according to the Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine from organizations " Centrenergo " and DTEK coal deliveries from Russia stopped for some time, " he said, Minister Yuri Sold his press Secretary Olena Mishchenko page century.
Company " Centrenergo ", supplying, for example, Kyiv, at the end of the second decade of November was reported that Russian enterprises before the end of the year will put her more than five hundred thousand tons of coal. First the sources of the Last news in the industry have said that the Russian " Kuzbassrazrezugol " summer supplies thermal coal to Ukraine.
Ukraine is experiencing a shortage of 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.
Sold, 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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