KIEV, Oct. 1 – Ukraine has lost UAH2 billion in planned tax payments from Luhansk and Donetsk regions as of September, and in coming months the situation will worsen, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

"We've fallen short of UAH2 billion from Donbas. There is a continuous trend of a decline in the payment of taxes," he said, opening a cabinet meeting in Kiev on Wednesday.

The premier said that the trend has a time lag.