Coal

Lithuania and Moldova are betraying Ukraine by buying energy resources from Russia. 

The first string of the Nord Stream 2 (SP-2) gas pipeline is filled with gas and is ready for launch, the second can be filled by the end of the year.

The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Utilities, Andriy Gerus, said that Russia from November 1 stops supplying coal to Ukrainian thermal power plants.

In September, North American coal miners overtook Russian ones in terms of coking coal supplies to China and became the largest source of raw materials for China.

The era of coal can end only by the end of this century, and there can be no quick rejection of this type of fuel

The Kiev authorities will have to "crawl on their knees to Moscow" due to the lack of coal for power plants, Oleg Voloshin, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Opposition Platform - For Life party, said on Facebook.

Shares in the Raspadskaya coal company soared 5.9 percent during trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange on Monday, October 11.

There is potential for increasing gas supplies to Europe, but everything depends on commercial agreements, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian president.

The policy of switching to clean energy sources could lead Europe to disaster this winter, writes Forbes.

Europe, short of natural gas, is asking Russia for more coal, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.

Gazprom did not reserve the volume of additional capacities for gas transit through Ukraine in October, according to data from the Hungarian trading platform RBP.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the ability to increase the volume of gas supplies to Europe at any time is one of Russia's competitive advantages in the market.

Stepan Solzhenitsyn headed the largest coal company in Russia - SUEK

It will enter into force on April 1.