"In 2025, coal from the LNR is planned to be supplied to Turkey, India, Egypt, Israel, as well as countries in Asia and Africa", - the occupation "Ministry of Fuel, Energy, and Coal Industry of the LNR" told the russian propaganda agency on February 28.
The occupiers also stated that the main consumers of their coal products currently are thermal power plants, coke-chemical plants in the "LNR" and "DNR", sugar factories in the russian Krasnodar Krai, and enterprises in annexed Crimea.
"In 2025, shipments to the Kherson oblast were added to the existing destinations", - the statement said.
Earlier, it was reported that the "Bilorichenska" mine in the Lutuhyne district of the Luhansk oblast, for which the occupiers found their own "investor", is experiencing a shortage of about one hundred workers.