MINSK, April 24 - The equipment for a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine is ready and Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is waiting for an official response from Kiev on the fate of the project, Rusatom International Network president and Rosatom Eastern Europe head Alexander Merten said on the sidelines of the Atomexpo-Belarus 2015 forum.

The project to build the plant in the Kirovohrad region has been frozen on the part of the Ukrainian partners, and there is no official information from Ukraine on whether the project will be halted or continued, Merten said.