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DTEK has imported around 1.3 million tonnes of anthracite coal from Russia in 2014, DTEK CEO Maskym Tymchenko told reporters in Kyiv on Nov. 14. 

“We’ve brought around 1.3 million tonnes. We will bring the same volume by the end of the year. We don’t have another way out of the situation,” he said.

Tymchenko said that small volumes of anthracite coal are removed from DTEK’s enterprises Sverdlovantracit and Rovenkiantracit.

“The main problem is Debaltseve, the hub station. Until war in Debaltseve stops, we cannot bring serious volumes,” he said. He said that around 1.5 million tonnes of coal is located at the warehouses of the enterprises.

He said that the state in the person of Energomarket state enterprise owes UAH 1.8 billion to DTEK’s power generating companies and at the end of November the debt could grow to UAH 2.1 billion.