The initiative to prohibit coal imports from Russia could lead to the creation of a new scheme of coal deliveries from the temporarily uncontrolled territories.
According to the political scientist Alexei Yakubin, deliveries from uncontrolled territories will not be stopped, but the scheme will change.
“Ukraine has no alternatives to the coal mined there. So the deliveries will not cease. If it’s not Russian coal, then it could be Belarusian coal. Belarus used to export prohibited products to Russia, now it could bring coal to Ukraine. Thus we will have either a half-shady scheme or a completely shady scheme”, he said. (Ukrainian metal)