Ukraine: ATO coal to cost 1.1 thousand UAH
The Ministry for energy and coal industry is prepared to buy coal from the Anti-terrorist operation zone at 1.1 thousand UAH per ton.
The Ministry for energy and coal industry is prepared to buy coal from the Anti-terrorist operation zone at 1.1 thousand UAH per ton.
The State administration of the railroad transport of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsya) has no problems with coal deliveries from the anti-terrorist operation zone in the East.
The occupied territories face problems with fuel, machinery and railroad, said the Ministry for energy and coal ministry Vladimir Demchyshin.
Metinvest is negotiating with the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic about the work of its companies there and pays taxes to the separatists, said the Donetsk region military-civilian administration chairman Pavel Zhebrivsky.
In the Stanichno-Lugansk district at the Nizhnyaya Teplaya station a railroad line was blown leading to train carrying coal for the Lugansk thermal power station leaving the track.
In August Ukrainian thermal power stations plan to get 800 thousand tons of coal from the Anti-terrorist operation zone.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has agreed upon the possibility of carrying coal from the Anti-terrorist operation zone to the Ukraine-controlled territory via Russia.
Ukraine has to buy certain grades of coal from mines in the Russia-supported terrorists-occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.