Russia’s major coal supplier off Ukraine’s sanctions list

REUTERS

The corresponding order of December 29, 2017, is published on the ministry’s website.

Sanctions were dropped on the same day the order was published.

Yuzhtrans is registered in Russia’s Rostov region bordering with Ukraine’s east.

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Relevant orders came into force on December 9, 2017.

Previously, Ukrainian law enforcers suspected Yuzhtrans of illegally exporting coal from the occupied territories of Donbas.