KIEV, Dec. 10 - The Ukrainian government plans to complete the construction of units three and four of the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant in 2020, as evidenced by a cabinet action program published on the government web portal on Tuesday evening.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – The State Property Fund has stopped the sale of 25% of DTEK Dniproenergo, 25% of Donbasenergo and 5% of Odessa Port-Side Plant on stock exchanges and suspended the sale of 10% of Centrenergo.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Ukraine's real gross domestic product declined by 5.3% year-on-year in the third quarter, following a Q2 4.7% drop and a Q1 fall 1.1%, the State Statistics Service reported.

In late October, the service estimated the fall in GDP in July-September 2014 compared to July-September 2013 at 5.1%.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Shell and Ukrgazvydobuvannia under an agreement on joint operations started drilling a second exploratory well, Novo-Mechebylivska-100 (Blyzniuky district, Kharkiv region), to search for natural gas in sandstone, Shell reported on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – MPs Yevhen Marmazov and Petro Symonenko (the Communist faction) have proposed that all trunk pipelines located on the territory of Ukraine should be in state ownership.

KIEV, Dec. 10 - Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky said he hopes that a mutual understanding would be reached with his Russian partners and that gas contracts would be amended.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – The National Bank of Ukraine predicts that a small amount of inflation will be recorded at the end of 2013, acting director of the general economic department at the NBU, Olena Kovalenko said.

"We expect that in 2013 the consumer price index will be slightly up," Kovalenko said in the video comments posted on the NBU's Web site.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – An increase in Kiev's subway fare is imminent, although the city's authorities will delay this increase as long as possible, head of Kiev City Administration Oleksandr Popov said, the Segodnya newspaper reported.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – The U.S. Yum! Brands, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, is set this month to rollout expansion plans for Ukraine, the Financial Times newspaper has reported.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is raising a $3.656 billion credit line from China Development Bank Corporation to realize projects for the replacement of natural gas with coal.