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Russia suspends coal export to Ukraine

25 November 2014 07:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA-Economics. Ukraine's energy minister said on Monday Russia had suspended coal supplies to Ukraine, a blow to domestic energy suppliers who are struggling with a severe lack of raw fuel for power plants due to a separatist conflict in the industrial east, Reuters reported.

On Nov. 12 Prodan said Ukraine would have to rely on Russian coal to get through the winter after the war in the east disrupted supplies to thermal power plants (TPP), which provide around 40 percent of the country's electricity, and left reserves critically low ahead of the cold season.

"According to information received from DTEK and (state-run) Tsentrenergo, coal supplies from Russia have been suspended," an energy ministry spokesman quoted Prodan as saying.

Ukraine's biggest private energy company DTEK said the suspension of supplies was unexpected.

"The company received no official notification about the delay in shipments. Now we are trying to find out the reasons and circumstances of the current situation," DTEK said in a statement.