KIEV, Feb. 15 – Heat supply companies owe UAH 3.5 billion to Gaz Ukrayiny for gas consumed in present heating season (starting on October 1, 2009), with a 46% level of payments, the company reported on Monday.

According to data from Gaz Ukrayiny's monitoring, this season heat companies in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odessa, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Kiev, Lviv, Chernihiv regions and Crimea have the largest debts for consumed natural gas.