Dobropilska Coal Mine

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Dobropilska Coal Mine (Добропільська) is a mothballed coal mine in Dobropillia, Donetsk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Dobropilska Coal Mine	Dobropillia, Dobropillia, Donetsk, Ukraine	48.4672734, 37.0983411 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Mothballed	–	1941	–

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	0.34	2023	Underground	–	–	855.0	1786.0

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
–	–	–	–	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Dobropillyavugillya-vydobutok	Dobropillyavugillya-vydobutok [100.0%]	Ukraine

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

Note: The asterisk (*) indicates that the value is an estimated figure based on various factors, including the company's forecasted or reported monthly or quarterly production data, etc.

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
–	–	–	1.37	1.1	0.29*	–	0.34*	–	–

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2026 release.

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Background

The Dobropilska Coal Mine is an underground coal mine in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The Dobropilska coal mine is an underground coal mine. The mine used to be part of DTEK Dobropolyeugol, a subsidiary of DTEK Energy. In 2020 DTEK decided to interrupt the lease agreement and in early 2021 returned the company to the state. Subsequently the mine transitioned under the ownership of State enterprise Dobropillyavugillya-vydobutok.

The Dobropilska coal mine has a capacity of 1 million tons per year.

DTEK Dobropolyeugol included 5 mines: Dobropilska, Almaznaya Coal Mine, Belitskaya Coal Mine, Novodonetskaya Coal Mine and Pioner Coal mine. In 2017, DTEK Dobropolyeugol jointly produced 2.128 Mt of coal. In 2020, this was 2.343 Mt, of which Dobropilska contributed 1.1 million tonnes.

According to the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, most Donbas region mines were seized by Russians and pro-Russian rebels in late 2014 and many have endured electricity shortages and flooding ever since. The output of the Donbas mines is no longer transparent, and many are likely non-operational and on hiatus.

The mine was assumed mothballed, however as per 2023 sources it appeared that it was operational. The company's undated website referred to the mine as operational.

In October 2023, Dobropillyavugillya-vydobutok reported that the company completed the annual mining plan ahead of schedule, producing 0.64 million tonnes of coal. This is joint production of 3 mines of the company that appear to be operating - Dobropilska, Novodonetskaya, and Almaznaya Coal Mine.

By May 2024, the mine was extracting coal but unable to sell it, as Tsentrenerho — its main buyer — had stopped purchasing after three of its thermal power plants were destroyed by Russian strikes. The mine's stockpiles were reported to be overflowing, and the buyer's outstanding debt to the enterprise stood at 200 million hryvnias (approximately $5 million).

In March 2025, the company reported that the Dobropilska produced 28.4 thousand tonnes in the month of March 2025. (annual equivalent about 0.34 million tonnes).

On the night of May 29, 2025, Russian forces struck the mine's fifth shaft, causing a surface fire. Fourteen miners were underground at the time; combustion products did not reach the mine workings.

On August 8, 2025, a Russian strike destroyed a 110 kV substation, cutting power to the mine. Nine miners working underground at the time were evacuated to the surface. The situation was described as critical: gas emissions began and the mine started to flood. A newly prepared longwall was flooded, and the operating longwall experienced repeated power outages. The head of Ukraine's Confederation of Free Trade Unions warned that the flooding was likely to have catastrophic consequences for the community and the wider region. By November 2025, the mine was reported to be flooded and without power, with its processing plant having been destroyed earlier. Therefore the mine in considerd to be mothballed.

In early March 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Energy announced its initiative to transfer Dobropillyavugillya-vydobutok, the state enterprise that owns the Dobropilska mine, to the State Property Fund for privatization, with the stated goal of attracting investors capable of carrying out technical modernization.

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