KYIV, May 3 – Ukrainian Minister of Energy Herman Haluschenko considers the possibility of opening coal exports due to the complete shutdown of PJSC Centrenergo, the main client of state-owned coal mining enterprises, because of the destruction and occupation of its thermal power plants.

"We are considering the question of exports. I think we will resolve it. There is indeed a problem now. Production is ongoing and increasing because we have ramped it up. We need to find financial mechanisms [to ensure the operation of mines], including coal exports," the minister told journalists in Kyiv after a meeting with UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron on May 2.