KIEV, April 28 - Ukraine cut steel exports 26.2% year-on-year in the first quarter to 5.42 million tons and sales to the domestic market 57.8% to 1.05 million tons, Deputy Industrial Policy Minister Serhiy Hryschenko said at the fourth CIS and East Europe Steel conference in Kiev.

But the situation has improved since the fourth quarter - exports grew 15.3% and domestic sales 140%, Hryschenko said.