This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to the Director General of DTEK Maxim Timchenko.
“At present, we have contracted the supply of more than 300 thousand tons of brand G coal, as well as 100 thousand tons of anthracite ... We do not stop there, we will continue to contract based on the situation that is now,” he said.
Timchenko said that on August 13 the delivery to the port of Yuzhny was carried out, and on August 14, the first batch of contracted gas coal was unloaded from Colombia. The next batch is expected on September 3.
Earlier, workers at the Ukrainian mines Kurakhovskaya and Ukraine blocked the road, demanding payment of wage arrears. Later, the miners of the Kapitalnaya mine refused to work also because of wage arrears.
In early August, the representative of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in the cabinet of ministers Andriy Gerus said that electricity was cut off in the mines of the Toretskugol state-owned enterprise in the Donetsk region.
At the same time, on August 20, the head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, said that the Gornaya mine in the Lugansk Region was operating in emergency mode and was at risk of flooding due to a lack of electricity.
Read more about the situation in Ukrainian mines in RT.