The company said it incurred losses worth 7.38 billion roubles from the flooded mine Mir.

The profit for the period fell from 26.6 billion roubles earned in July-September 2016, while sales declined to 58.9 billion roubles from 68.9 billion roubles.

(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy, Writing by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)