The Pokrovsk mine was Ukraine’s only source of coking coal, essential for the steel industry. In 2023, Ukraine produced about 3.5 million tons of coke, relying solely on coking coal from Pokrovsk, ...

Background: In December 2024, Akhmetov's Metinvest Group suspended operations at its coal mining site in the settlement of Pishchane near the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast. Support UP or ...

Without Pokrovsk, Ukraine will lose the annual production of millions of tons of coke coal — the main source for local ...

One of the ventilation shafts of the Ukrainian company Metinvest's coal mine in the area of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk Region was blown up to prevent troops from the aggressor country russia from using ...

Mining and metallurgical group Metinvest considers it necessary to implement predictable tax and tariff policy in Ukraine, ...

Metinvest Group confirms suspension of Pokrovsk Coal Group operations (Pokrovsk, Donetsk Region) due to changes in the situation on the front line, electricity shortages and worsening security ...

Metinvest, which owns the Pokrovsk plant, said in a statement on Tuesday that it had stopped operations at "Pokrovske Coal due to the evolving frontline conditions, power supply shortages and the ...

Steelmaker Metinvest BV, which owns the facility ... exclusively using coking coal mined in Pokrovsk. Its steelmakers' union said last year the potential closure of the mine could cause steel ...

A strategically important coal mine in the village of Pishchane, near the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast ... reports that explosives were planted in two other mines owned by Metinvest, the company ...

Suicide drones are hitting civilian cars around the mine and Metinvest BV, the steel company that owns it, has said it had closed and evacuated one of three shafts. Pokrovsk is a target for ...

We believe in the victory of Ukraine, we believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and we are ready to resume the work of Pokrovske Coal and Pokrovsk itself after repelling the Russian invasion," said ...