Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk is alarmed over the preparations for the upcoming heating season and has demanded that Energy and Coal Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn accelerates the process of storing coal.

"I lay personal responsibility on the Energy Minster for the urgent implementation of the government's decision: by the end of the month the basic numbers on coal reserves at storages facilities must reach [the norm]," he said before an exercise at Ukrenergo in Kyiv on Monday.

Yatseniuk said that the Cabinet had allocated UAH 2 billion to accumulate coal at storage facilities, and Energomaket company allocated additional UAH 1 billion. However, the funds were not used.