Ukraine will be hard to survive the winter, because 85% of the Ukrainian coal was mined in the Donbass, believes the Prime Minister of the unrecognized Donetsk national Republic (DND) Alexander Zakharchenko.

" There will be electricity blackouts. They have a Shortage of coal, " Zakharchenko said at a press conference on Wednesday.

in mid-June because of the billions of dollars of debt Kiev were stopped for some time deliveries of gas to Ukraine from Russia. To supply the plant with coal in practice impossible because of the fighting in the East of the country where a large part of existing mines. The gas deficit and stop the mines caused a Lack of energy and, consequently, power. Ukraine for the first time over a long period has to import thermal coal to meet the needs of thermal power plants. Against this background, the government of Ukraine signed an agreement with South Africa for the production and delivery of presumably one million tons of coal, the 1st batch of 250 thousand tons hopes to receive in October.


Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat residents. According to the UN on October 6, the victims of the conflict were more than 3, 6 thousands of civilians, more than 8, 7, thousands were injured body. About the development of the situation in the South-East of Ukraine read in the chronicle Last news

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