The funds provided in the State budget for 2017 for the restructuring of the coal enterprises and the support of the operating activities of the state mining enterprises should be invested not in the consumption of reserves, but in the modernization of the coal industry. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman during the "Hour of Questions to the Government" at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Friday.

The Prime Minister noted that the Government lays UAH 1.8 billion in the draft State budget for 2017 for restructuring the mines and support the payment of wages to the miners, where coal mining is unprofitable.