Russia is stuck at a coal crossroads between Ukraine and Donbass
Moscow - Kyiv, December 9 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Russia finds itself in a difficult situation due to the resumption of energy supplies to Ukraine. The resumption of the import of coal from Russia to Ukraine has already caused a protest from the DPR and LPR, where they believe that this should not happen while Kyiv itself keeps the DPR and LPR in an economic blockade. Russia, by supplying energy to Ukraine, expects that it will not cut off energy supplies to Crimea.
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Ukraine has not received Russian coal since November 22; the wagons were parked at the border. This was not officially confirmed in Russia; it was unofficially explained by the ban of Russian Railways. But after Kyiv sent Gazprom an advance payment for gas on Saturday night, according to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, cars with 50 thousand tons of coal began moving.
Yesterday, the leadership of the Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics” for the first time officially responded to Russian coal supplies to Ukraine. The heads of the people's assemblies of the DPR and LPR, Andrei Purgin and Alexei Koryakin, asked Moscow not to supply Ukraine with coal of the grades that are in the Donbass in order to force Ukraine to lift the economic blockade.
The situation with coal is still controversial - sometimes it is reported that it comes to Ukraine from the Russian Federation, sometimes not. But in principle, as sources said "Kommersant", Russia is ready to supply energy resources with a guarantee of supplying energy-deficient Crimea.
Yesterday, the head of the Crimean administration, Sergei Aksenov, said that an agreement on energy supplies on such terms had already been signed. However, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation neither confirms nor denies the conclusion of the contract, and a source familiar with the situation confirmed to the publication that the contract with Ukraine has not yet been signed.
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