KIEV, Aug. 8 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry plans to re-launch units 1 and 4 of the crippled Vuhlehirska thermal power plant in December, said Serhiy Mezhenny, the director of the power industry department at the ministry.

"It was decided by the technical council of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry and approved by the central office that units 1 and 4 of Vuhlehirska are to be resumed by December 1, 2013," he said.