Russia has denied transit permits to 60% of Kazakh coal that was to have crossed Russia last summer for Ukraine,

Russia has denied transit permits to 60% of Kazakh coal that was to have crossed Russia last summer for Ukraine, reports Interfax-Kazakstan, citing Maxim Kononov, an executive of Kazakhstan’s Association of Mining and Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises. Instead of 584,000 tons, Ukraine received only 233,500 tons. Similarly, imports of Russian coal dropped in half over the summer. At the same time, Ukraine’s seaports almost doubled their coal imports in July.