“Right now we are cutting off all coal deliveries to Ukraine… They need 1.2 million tons a month, which we are ready to supply if only they lift their ban on the supply of fuel oil and spare parts for our train cars and engines and stop firing at us,” Semyon Kuzmenko said in an interview with Donetsk News Agency.
Most of Ukraine’s profitable coalmines are in parts of Donbass controlled by the pro-independence militia.
“Only a third of our railway engines are now working and we need more to meet our demands,” Kuzmenko added.
He also said that with Kiev’s ban on the deliveries of fuel oil and spare parts gone, the republic would take just two months to restore its war-ravaged rail transport system.
