MOSCOW, Sept. 20 - The Evraz Group has spent around $25 mln on buying minority stakes in the Ordzhonikidze and Marhanets ore-mining and dressing mills from the industrial and financial concern Prydniprovia, which is controlled by businessman and ex-President Leonid Kuchma's son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk.

Aleksandr Frolov, EvrazHolding's managing director for corporate rights, reported the purchase in an interview with reporters in Moscow, Interfax-Ukraine reported.