Putin Was Informed About The Lack Of Money For Miners' Salaries In Occupied Donbass
- 1.10.2025, 7:42
The mines will have to be closed and mothballed.
Moscow-appointed "head" of the so-called "Lugansk People's Republic" Leonid Pasechnik has appealed to Vladimir Putin with a request for support in solving the problems of the region's coal industry. According to RBC, the companies in question are Trade House Don Coals and Industrial Group Rodina, which, due to a lack of funding, are unable to launch investment projects at leased mines and ensure payment of miners' salaries.
Pasechnik said that the occupation authorities have already allocated more than 1 billion rubles from the local budget in the form of repayable loans, which went to cover debts to employees. At the same time, the "governor" warned that if the companies do not receive sufficient credit, the mines will have to be closed and mothballed. In this case, federal subsidies in the amount of 25.6 billion rubles until the end of 2028 will be required, since the "LNR" budget does not provide funds for conservation.
In the spring, it became known that Russian companies that had leased 15 coal mines in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, refused to develop nine of them. The reason was given as the unprofitability of the mines against the background of global coal prices and high costs. In particular, two mines in the "DNR" were leased by the company Impex-Don, and another seven in the "LNR" - by Donskiye Ugli. Then the companies tried to return the mines to the occupation administrations for further liquidation, although earlier they promised to invest 65 billion rubles in these facilities.
The difficulties with the coal industry, however, are recorded in Russia itself. In June, the large Spiridonovskaya mine in the Kemerovo region, where about 900 people worked, stopped production. The company explained that the arrears in wages, vacation and settlement payments exceeded 90 million rubles, and production had to stop due to lack of funding.