KIEV, March 4 – Municipal heat supply companies paid only 5-7% of the tab for natural gas consumed in January and February, Naftogaz Ukrayiny Deputy Chairman Volodymyr Trikolich said at a meeting on Tuesday.

"In January and February payments of heat suppliers surge in the 5-7% range in the country," he said.

The lowest level of payments was seen in Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa and Lviv regions and in Kiev city.