ocr: Ukraine's most successfully exploited fuel resource is coal. Most coalis minedin the Donets'k basin or the Donbass, aroundDonets'k and Luhans'k. There are also smaller reserves in western Ukraine, in the L'viv- Volhynia coal basin. Production has, however, been declining since the 1970s, and the industry has been hit by strikes since 1989. In 1992,production stood at 134 million tons a year. Production of: natural gas has also been declining since the 1970s. There are some uranum deposits, but Ulraine does not yet have the tacilities to produce fuel for its own nuclear reactors. Oil production ...
