Gaz-Alians, a company run by fugitive Ukrainian businessman Serhii Kurchenko, became the sole supplier of coal from the so-called “Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” – the self-proclaimed republics in the Russian-occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions better known as the ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’.
Viktor Yanukovych