Ukraine has paid $80 million out of the $440 million it owes Russian gas monopoly OAO Gazprom for February gas deliveries, Ukraine's Energy Minister Yury Prodan told Interfax news agency Wednesday.

Mr. Prodan also said that Gazprom has made no steps to cut off gas deliveries to Ukraine.

On Friday, Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller said Ukraine owes the company a total of $1.89 billion for gas deliveries and had failed to meet the Friday deadline for payment of its February deliveries. He warned that failing to pay the bill could cause Gazprom to stop natural-gas deliveries to Ukraine.

Mr. Prodan also said Ukraine is planning to purchase 27 billion cubic meters to 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas during 2014, down from the 30 billion cubic meters to 40 billion cubic meters per year the country had been importing from Russia in the past.

Write to Olga Razumovskaya at olga.razumovskaya@wsj.com

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