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The European Union will expand the sanctions against Russia if the situation in Donbas escalates, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.

“We have also discussed the issue of continuing and expanding the sanctions. We heard an absolute, clear position, that the sanction policies will be expanded if the aggression against Ukraine does not stop,” Poroshenko told reporters in Kyiv on March 4 after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.