KIEV, Jan. 26 ??“ Mittal Steel Kryviy Rih, Ukraine??™s largest steel producer formerly known as Kryvorizhstal, will not cut steel production even though it is decreasing its gas consumption, a source at the company said.

"The enterprise's leadership has not made a decision to fully replace natural gas with coke. At the moment, we are speaking about the decreasing of natural gas consumption with a minimal increase in coke consumption," the source said quoted by Interfax-Ukraine.