Ukrainian expert Dmytro Averin says about 36 coal mines in the occupied Donbas in eastern Ukraine have been completely or partially flooded and are not subject to further use.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a resolution permitting the liquidation of unprofitable state-owned coal mines without their withdrawal from the list of existing coal mining enterprises, which will reduce the time and costs for such mines’ liquidation, the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's press service posted on Facebook.