KIEV, Feb. 3 – The Antimonopoly Committee has reduced the size of fines for three large filing stations chains to UAH 350,000-450,000 and imposed the same fines on another two chains as a part of a case on sharp increase of fuel prices in December 2010 and January 2011, Mykola Barash, a representative of the committee, said.

"The fines were considerably reduced and reached the minimum for such actions," he said at a press conference in Kiev on Thursday.

Barash said that companies that were challenging their fines in courts would withdraw their claims from courts in the near future.