In January-June Ukrainian thermal power and combined heat and power plants received 1.354 million tons of imported coal, including in June 313.4 thousand tons of coal from Russia and 44.6 thousand tons from the South African Republic.
According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, in 6 months Russia supplied 1.09 million tons of coal for power plants, Africa – 145.1 thousand tons, and Poland – 118.9 thousand tons.
In June coal stocks at the power plants increased by 2%, to 2.643 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)