KIEV , Dec. 1 – The government on Wednesday approved a financial plan for Naftogaz Ukrayiny for 2016, foreseeing compensation related to the decision to permit households to pay 50% of the utilities bills in installments in the heating period made earlier, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KIEV, Dec. 1 – Employees of Zhytomyr confectionary factory ZhL (formerly CJSC Zhytomyrski Lasoschi) have declared a 10-day strike due to the possible attempt of an illegal seizure of the factory, ZhL supervisory board member Denys Dolynsky said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 30 - The Ukrainian state-run national energy company Ukrenergo completed at about 11 p.m. on Sunday the repair of the 220 KW Kakhovka-Tytan power transmission line connecting elevated power wires with insulator kits, Kherson Regional Administration said on Monday morning with reference to head of the Ukrenergo information policy directorate Zynoviy Butsio.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – The Ukroboronprom State Concern is continuing negotiations with European defense companies on establishing technological and industrial cooperation in modernization of armored vehicles.

KIEV, Dec. 1 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise (UkSATSE) on November 30 resumed cooperation under an air navigation system modernization project originally negotiated in 2012 and UkSATSE will utilize a long-term loan from the EBRD of up to EUR 41.2 million.

KIEV, Dec. 1 - Russia resumed some exports of coal to Ukraine, a week after shutting the exports down, but the supplies remain irregular, Yuriy Prodan, the acting energy and coal industry minister, said Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 1 - The European Investment Bank will provide 150 million euros to Ukraine for modernization of its natural gas pipeline, which ships Russian gas to markets in Europe, Prime Minister Arserniy Yatseniuk said Monday.

ANKARA, Dec. 1 - Russia on Monday scrapped the South Stream pipeline project to supply gas to southern Europe without crossing Ukraine, citing EU objections, and instead named Turkey as its preferred partner for an alternative pipeline, with a promise of hefty discounts, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 1 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk hopes that Ukrainian producers will win a tender to supply pipe to repair a 120 km stretch of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline whose upgrade is being financed by loans from the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – Ukraine's gas stockpile in underground storage facilities was down to 17.6 billion cubic meters as of late November, Vadym Chuprun, deputy head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny said in Kiev on Thursday.