KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine, mired in a power crisis due to a thermal coal shortage, will allow all companies to import electricity, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said on Friday as he urged consumers to save energy.
Ukraine used to be self-sufficient in coal, but months of fighting has halted production at more than half of the country's mines, disrupting supplies to thermal power plants that usually generate 40 percent of the country's power.
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