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Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that European Union along with the other states shouldn't lift sanctions against Russia by the time the latter fulfills its obligations under the Minsk Agreements.

“Policy of sanctions in regard to Minsk Agreements and situation in the east of Ukraine must be prolonged and world shouldn’t drop this policy,” he said at a press conference following the talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on Dec. 15.