This was announced on Facebook by Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection Alexei Orzhel.
“The Cabinet of Ministers has provided 1 billion hryvnias to pay salaries and pay off debt,” he wrote.
The head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, reported that in early September, wage arrears to Ukrainian miners amounted to 306 million hryvnias.
In September, the third coal ship from Colombia arrived in Ukraine.