The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has, at the instruction of the Cabinet of Ministers, launched an investigation in regard to Russian Gazprom concerning signs of violations of economic competition laws, committee acting head Mykola Barash reported.

"In fact, that document arrived before the holiday weekend last week. It is now being studied. Consider that we are beginning [the investigation]," Barash told journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday.

"Can you imagine that we would not begin an investigation in such a situation? That cannot be," Barash said.

It was reported earlier that the cabinet approved the instruction addressed to the committee concerning competition law violations by Gazprom on April 22, 2015

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsen i uk said Kyiv planned to propose to the European Union jointly conducting an investigation into Gazprom's monopoly on markets in the EU and Ukraine.