Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in the Kremlin with Lugansk People’s Republic Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik, has promised to allocate subsidies for paying wages to LPR coalminers.
“As for immediate assistance, we’ll certainly provide it, too,” Russia’s TASS news agency quoted Putin as saying. “Especially subsidies for wages or some other measures to maintain the operation of enterprises.”
Pasechnik said that the “Vostokugol” Republican Fuel Company state unitary enterprise had become loss-making after the beginning of the special military operation, and asked the president to include the LPR coal-mining sector in the government coal supply program.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. The LPR militia and Russian armed forces fully liberated the LPR territory from Ukrainian armed formations on July 3.
The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. The peace talks that began soon thereafter failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.
The Lugansk People’s Republic became a part of Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*ie
