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Coalmines with the total monthly extraction volume of 300,000 tonnes cannot be restored in Ukraine, Ukraine's Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Prodan has told journalists in Kyiv.

‘The total losses of those coalmines which are impossible to be restored due to flooding are around 300,000 tonnes a month,’ he said.

As reported, in early September First Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Ziukov said that 13 mines have been completely destroyed in Donbas.