KIEV, April 3 – DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, is ready to buy coal directly from state coalmines at UAH 1,500 per ton if the cost is included in the thermal power plants' tariff for electricity transmission, DTEK CEO Maksym Tymchenko said at a press conference in Kiev on Thursday.

He said that DTEK is ready to buy all the coal produced by Lvivvuhillia and Volynvuhillia, and certain volumes of coal from other mines at the said price. Contracts are to be signed with the enterprises directly, not via a "black hole" as represented by Vuhillia Ukrainy.