Ukraine is in the process of preparation for the heating season will be forced to buy coal from all possible suppliers, and so does Russia, said on the first day of the week the head of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn.

"The main volume of coal, We expect, will be brought by sea from South Africa, the United States and other countries. In addition, I expect that will be brought coal from Russia. This is also a definite risk factor, but in preparation for the heating season I see no other possibility but to buy coal from all of the vendors that We can do It, " said Demchyshyn during the meeting of the anti-crisis energy headquarters under the leadership of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

according to him, today's supply of coal is 1, 5 million tons before the start of the heating season in Kyiv plans to save 3 million tons.

"We instructed all subjects to generate buy coal where they can find" - said the head of the Ministry of energy. According to him, the Main problem of the accumulation of the required number of coal is the lack of funds.

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