The leading is expected by China, Indonesia and Indonesia, whose energy balance is based on coal.
Russia exports 46% of the coal, while the high rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, a strong ruble and expensive logistics painfully affect the profitability of such supplies. The same China reaches high economic efficiency due to the proximity of TPPs to the places of coal production: that is, they burn coal where they get that it saves on logistics.
Ukraine in 2024 mined 17.4 million tons of coal. This is 10.6% of the same indicator of the USSR 1990 and 20.8% of the 2013 Ukraine indicator.