Ukraine buys up to 9 million tonnes of coal per year in the occupied territories of Donbas, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion said in the Left Bank with Sonia Koshkina program.

"We receive coal in the amount of up to 9 million tonnes per year from the occupied territories," he said.

Kistion added coal is supplied by the companies that are registered and pay taxes in Ukraine.

"These are not only the companies of Akhmetov," he added.