The Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan said on Thursday that about 2, 6 million tons of coal are in warehouses, located on the control of the Ukrainian authorities of the territory of Donbass.

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 power station coal is impossible in practice because of the conflict in the East of the country where a large part of existing mines. The lack of gas and stop 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 Ukraine hopes to receive in October.

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