International journalists are broadcasting the world events that are hardening Ukrainians and showing the extraordinary efforts that every Ukrainian is making to win as soon as possible. One of DTEK Energy's mines was visited by journalists from the Associated Press one of the world's largest news agencies, including photographer Yevgeniy Maloletka and journalist Vasilisa Stepanenko. The journalists filmed a report on how, deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the country's war effort and to provide civilians with light and heat.
“We come and work with optimism, trying not to think about what is going on outside the mine,” a miner named Serhii said. “We work with a smile and forget about it. And when we leave, then another life begins (for us), of survival and everything else”,
said DTEK`s energy worker.
Read the full story here – Associated Press.
Photo - AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
DTEK Group is the largest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector, with 55,000 employees and over €12 billion of capital invested since 2005.
Our businesses generate electricity at wind, solar and thermal power plants; distribute and supply power to end consumers; extract natural gas and coal; trade energy resources on Ukrainian and foreign markets; and provide domestic and commercial energy services.
Over the last 20 years, DTEK has grown into a national energy leader and is today transforming into a pan-European clean energy business.
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, DTEK Group has restored power to millions of consumers across regions affected by hostilities.
DTEK Group is 100% owned by SCM Holdings. The ultimate beneficiary and sole shareholder is Rinat Akhmetov, a businessman and philanthropist.