KIEV, Feb. 28 - The Illich Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, part of the Metinvest Group, estimates its losses from the blockade of rail lines leading to Donbas at UAH 4 million ($148,000) a day, plant CEO Yuriy Zinchenko said.

"Our enterprise alone is incurring losses due to such actions on the railroad of about UAH 4 million a day," Zinchenko said at a meeting of Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman held with representatives of the metallurgical sector in Kiev on Tuesday.