In January-April Ukrainian thermal and central heating power plants received 550.5 thousand tons of imported coal, including 137.2 thousand tons in April.
All the April coal was supplied from Russia.
According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, Ukrainian power plants received 72.9 thousand tons of coal from the South African Republic, 358.8 thousand tons from Russia and 118.9 thousand tons from Poland in January-April.
Coal stocks in April increased by 4.5%, or by 85.6 thousand tons, to 2007.5 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)