In the end military operations in the Donets basin, where 80% of Ukrainian mines, the country lost about 12 million tons of coal, said 1st Deputy Minister of energy and coal industry Yuriy Zhukov.
" We have lost in recent months due to fighting for almost 12 million tons of coal. The state enterprise has produced 16 million tonnes, and their losses were 3, 7 million tons, " said Zhukov, UNIAN reports. According to the Deputy Minister, coal production for 10 months of 2014 was reduced in comparison with the same period of the previous year by 17% to 57 million tons 68, 6 million tons. First Zhukov said that Kyiv is ready to purchase the coal regions of Donbass, which are controlled by representatives of the militia of the Luhansk and Donetsk national republics. Remember, in early October, the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan said that Ukraine does not have enough coal to produce 30% of electricity. He also said that the Ukrainian private organizations intend to buy before the end of 2014, about 4 million tons of coal from Russia. His Ukrainian coal power plants will only last until November, said first independent trade Union of miners of the country. According to him, at the beginning of September in warehouses TPP were 1, 7 million tons of coal. We emphasize that stop mining coal in the Donbass threatens Ukraine's energy disaster.


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