Ukrainian coal mining enterprises in January-June 2015 reduced production of raw coal by 52.2%, year-over-year, to 19.469 million tonnes. Coking coal output in the first six months of the year fell by 64%, to 4.055 million tonnes and production of power-generating coal decreased by 47.7%, to 15.414 million tonnes.
In the first half of 2015, coalmines in Donetsk region produced 6.836 million tonnes of coal (61.5% down comparing to January-June 2014), in Luhansk 1.941 million tonnes (84.6% down), Dnipropetrovsk region 9.514 million tonnes (1.9% up), Lviv region 1.041 million tonnes (20.2% up), and Volyn 137,300 tonnes (0.4% down). Read more at interfax.com.ua