DTEK energy holding has stopped buying coal from state-run Lvivvuhillia due to a failure of agreements with the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine, Chair of the Independent Trade Union of Coalminers of Ukraine Mykhailo Volynets wrote on his Facebook page.

"I know that [Energy and Coal Industry] Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn ruined agreements with DTEK top managers. According to the agreement, the private company supplied anthracite to Centrenergo to state-owned power plants in Kharkiv and Kyiv regions and in exchange it bought gas coal from Lvivvuhillia and Volynvuhillia for its TPPs [thermal power plants] – Burshtyn and Dobrotvirska TPPs. Due to violation of the agreements DTEK today stopped buying coal extracted by coalminers of the Lviv-Volyn basin," he said.

Earlier Lviv Regional Administration reported that Burshtyn TPP on January 14, 2015 refuses to accept coal from Lvivvuhillia.