Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the needs of the coal sector in mine rescue equipment are financed by 15-20%.
“This is our tragedy that due to a lack of financing of many important spheres of life people are killed and suffer. Sufficient funds were not invested neither in coalmines, nor roads, hospitals, infrastructure and social sphere,” Groysman wrote on Facebook.
He said that heads of companies felt well, while saving funds on people: salaries, rescue and safety equipment and labor safety.
“The needs of the coal industry in mine rescue equipment are financed by 15-20%,” he said.
He said that these were additional several dozens millions of hryvnias. He promised to solve the issue.
As reported, the rock collapsed in a blast at the Stepovaya coalmine of the Lvivugol company in the village of Hlukhiv, Sokal district, Lviv region in the afternoon on March 2. As many as 172 miners were working in the coalmine at the time, eight of them died in the explosion. (Interfax/Ukrainian metal)