MOSCOW, Dec. 22 - Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny may lease underground gas storage facilities to companies that will produce gas in Ukraine, according to Deputy CEO of Naftogaz Vadym Chuprun.

KIEV, Dec. 24 - Ukraine's national nuclear power generating company EnergoAtom has formally announced its plan to build a third and a fourth power unit with pressurized water reactors at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant.

KIEV, Dec. 24 --Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered to 'SD' (selective default) from 'CC' its long-term corporate credit rating on Ukrainian steel pipe producer Interpipe Ltd.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – Bogdan Corporation, one of the largest players on the Ukrainian car market, might fire some 2,000 of its current 10,000 workers as of the next year.

KIEV, Dec. 25 ??“ The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) announced Image Ltd. the winner in the tender to select the assessor to determine the market value of a 100% stake in Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) to make management decisions, the fund reported.

KIEV, Dec. 25 - CA IB, an Austrian investment bank, and Concord Capital, a Ukrainian investment company, as lead-managers have conducted a regular private placement of stocks in Universal, the Lviv-based insurance company.

KIEV, Dec. 25 ??“ The Ukrainian government has expanded the participants in auctions to sell natural gas, allowing all non-state companies producing gas in Ukraine, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko told reporters.

KIEV, Dec. 25 ??“ Hungary's Energy Capital ZRt. accused state enterprise UkrInterEnergo, the operator for exporting Ukrainian electricity, in the non-fulfillment of agreement liabilities, according to a company??™s letter sent to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.

KIEV, Dec. 22 - Ukraine??™s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny commissioned 70 million euros worth facility Thursday to improve measurements of quality and quantity of natural gas transported from Russia to the European Union.

MOSCOW, Dec. 25 ??“ Russia and Belarus on Monday were in a deadlock in talks over natural gas prices next year signaling possible supply disruptions on Jan. 1, 2007, a spokesman for Gazprom, Russia??™s gas giant, said.