Gazprom is appealing the decision of the Kyiv Economic Court, which recognized the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine's fining the Russian company UAH 172 billion ($6.5 billion at the current exchange rate) as legal.

According to the information of the Sudova Vlada Ukrainy (Judicial Authority of Ukraine) portal, the appeal was submitted on December 15.

At the same time, the press service of the Kyiv Economic Court of Appeals told Interfax-Ukraine that such an appeal has not yet been registered in their system.

Earlier the Kyiv Economic Court fully met the legal demands of the antimonopoly committee against Gazprom about the forced collection of a UAH 172 billion fine from the company.

The official exchange rate on December 16 was UAH 26.3/$1.