Ukraine: coal imports up in January-November 2017

Ukraine in January-November increased coal imports in monetary terms 1.87-fold YoY, to $2.431 billion, according to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. Russia remained the major supplier of coal over the period under review, accounting for 56.4% of total supplies worth $1.37 billion, the report said. It is followed by the United States (24.8%, $603.8…

Ukraine: Russian oligarch eyes purchase of AMZ in occupied Donbas

Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov is interested in Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, a Ukrainian enterprise earlier seized by Russia-backed militants in the occupied Donbas, according to a Ukrainian MP, coordinator of Information Resistance analytical group Dmytro Tymchuk. Leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (“DPR”) are failing to revive operations of most of the “nationalized”…