Ukraine: coal mining in January-September 2015 down
In January-September coal mining in Ukraine due to the military activities in Donbass fell almost twice YoY, from 53.4 million tons to 29.64 million tons.
In January-September coal mining in Ukraine due to the military activities in Donbass fell almost twice YoY, from 53.4 million tons to 29.64 million tons.
The Ministry for energy and coal industry wants the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine’s key creditor, to help reform the coal industry, which has been suffering from the lack of the budget support for over a year.
In January-August Ukraine imported $1121.34 million worth of anthracite and black coal, including $138.11 million in August.
The head of the Lviv region state administration Oleg Sinyutka, Lvivugol representatives and Lviv region coal industry trade union have discussed the debts to the Lviv miners.
The Ministry for Internal Affairs has stopped illegal deliveries of coal from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region.
A large batch of coal from the South-African Republic will arrive in November, promised the energy minister Vladimir Demchyshin.
Ukraine has not stopped buying coal from occupied territories of Donbass, said the head of the Donetsk region military-civilian administration Pavel Zhebrivsky.
Pavel Zhebrivsky, the head of the Donetsk regional administration, said the Cabinet of Ministers was sent a project of the decree to return processing factories to the state property.