“ About coal smuggling from LDNR .
More information on the site: https://igate.news/news/travkin-bilousov-gritsai-and-peregudov-in-the-service-of-the-ldnr/ .
This business is worth millions. Ukrainian oligarch Sergii
Kurchenko pays mines 25-30 dollars per ton of anthracite.
In the West, coal goes for 100-160 dollars. More information on the site:
https://igate.news/news/travkin-bilousov-gritsai-and-peregudov-in-the-service-of-the-ldnr/ .
Only a small part of the coal is sent to Russia by truck.
The rest of the raw materials are exported by rail through a section of the border that is controlled by separatists.
Among the several thousand wagons used for transportation, some belong to the Ukrzaliznytsia
company - the separatists have seized them in Donetsk and
Luhansk oblasts. The wagons are used illegally and from another point
of view. According to Russian legislation, trains manufactured before 1985 are to be repaired
once every 5 years. Given the time of the beginning of the occupation, this
period has long expired, and the Ukrainian owner had no opportunity to repair
the wagons.
However, first of all, trains of Russian Railways and another Russian state-owned freight company, FGK, enter the territory of ORDL (Donetsk
and Luhansk Regions). According to the documentation,
the freight trains stand on the side tracks of the Gukovo or Uspenskaya border stations
in the village of Avilo-Uspenka. This is reported by the portal "Informpost", which
has turned from a Debaltsevo local site into an interesting source of information about the occupied territory.
In July 2019, there were 2,400 wagons in the entire
territory, almost 700 crossed the border daily in both directions, passing
only through the Uspenskaya station. The freight cars took
out anthracite, metal, and coke and brought in coal concentrate, gasoline, oil,
propane-butane, and iron ore. There were also more interesting
cargoes, for example, Informpost reported about a salt
wagon from Azerbaijan departing from Khirdalan station, not far from
Baku. ”