Report: EU leaders to prolong anti-Russian sanctions soon - Tusk

MOSCOW, May 26 (PRIME) -- The E.U. leaders will likely make a decision to prolong anti-Russian sanctions within next two or three weeks, Bloomberg reported Thursday citing the European Council’s President Donald Tusk.

Current sanctions are set to expire at the end of July.

The sanctions will remain in force until the Minsk agreements are fully implemented, Tusk said on its Twitter account.

E.U.’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said earlier that the union is not discussing an extension of anti-Russian sanctions over the political crisis in Ukraine but plans to start talks on a rollover of the existing measures in a few weeks.

A diplomatic source told PRIME late Wednesday that the E.U. may partially abolish anti-Russian sanctions at the end of the year.

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