The occupiers have destroyed the coal industry in the temporarily occupied territories and now want to close most of the mines.
According to the results of 2022, coal production in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions decreased by 42%. The biggest problem is the mobilization of miners to the enemy’s army, because currently the mines are less than 50% manned.
As a result, the occupiers do not plan to resume production and have set themselves the task of working through the process of closing non-working mines, or selling some of them if possible.
Note that all these “privatizations” will not have any legal force, because all these mines are captured and exploited by the enemy illegally. Even “potential investors” understand this, so no one wants to buy such an asset. Therefore, by “privatization” the occupiers mean the theft of mine property through fake legal entities.
