The privatization of the Chervonogradskaya central processing factory has been named illegal, and the Lviv regional commercial court of appeals returned its assets to the state ownership.
After the privatization in 2008 and the creation of the Lviv Coal Company the state controlled 37.58% of shares in the new company, with 62% controlled by the Lvivsystemenergo. In 2009 the latter divided its shares among three companies that in 2016 were registered in the militants-occupied Lugansk. (Ukrainian metal)