Excerpt from the briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, 15 September 2017
We took note that on 14 September 2017, the EU Council once again rubber stamped the decision to extend personal sanctions against individuals and legal entities of Russia and southeastern Ukraine until March 2018.
For us, this was not a surprise, given the prejudicial approaches of the European Union to the internal conflict in Ukraine and the reluctance to give an honest assessment of Kiev's actions to undermine the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
I would like to recall that in response to the unfriendly actions of the EU, a Russian “stop list” was adopted, which also remains in force.
