KYIV, Oct 8 – The huge shortage of coal that China is experiencing has seriously aggravated the situation on foreign markets and made it difficult to purchase it for the needs of the Ukrainian power generation, DTEK Executive Director Dmytro Sakharuk has said.

"In these conditions, it is extremely difficult to buy coal on foreign markets. Chinese demand is sucking coal from all corners of the world, even the most remote, where there was no China before. Everyone, including Russia and Kazakhstan, will be reoriented to China. Everyone will try to secure this demand from China's side. And it will do everything to provide itself with a resource. The situation in the market is extremely tense," he told to Interfax-Ukraine on the sidelines of the Kyiv International Economic Forum.