NIKOPOL, April 22 – DTEK predicts that there would be difficulties with imports of coal from the Russian Federation to Ukraine along with the coal export restrictions approved by the Russian government on April 18, 2019, but the group does not foresee any serious problems, DTEK CEO Maksym Tymchenko told reporters in Nikopol last week.

At the same time, he said that the company made every effort to convert the units of its thermal power plants (TPPs) from anthracite to gas coal.

"In addition, our base asset, Pavlohradvuhillia, is located here [on the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities]. We increased production to more than 1.5 million tons in order to ensure generation facilities with our own resources.