Ukraine must import at least 10 million tons of coal for the heating season, said on air of the TV channel " " the ex-Minister of fuel and energy of Ukraine, the head of Supervisory Board of " Kyivenergo " Ivan Plachkov.

" For us during the heating season until April still need to import to Ukraine at least 10 million tons of coal, so that was not such a deep rolling blackout, so there was social unrest, " said Plachkov.

Kiev has problems with electricity production due to the shortage of coal. In the end the standoff in Kiev Donbass lost the majority of coal mines. The state company " Ukrenergo " December 1, conducts a power outage due to power shortage in the nation's power grid, connected, and among them a shortage of coal.

As reported last week, energy Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn, Kiev hopes for several days to resolve the issue with the conclusion of contracts on imports of Russian electricity. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 5 December took the order authorizing temporary import of electricity from neighboring countries, which will enable to speed up the procedure of concluding contracts with Russia.

sections: Politics