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Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the European Union Mykola Tochytsky has announced that the committee of the EU Permanent Representatives agreed on the extension of individual sanctions against the Russian Federation until September of this year.

“The Committee of EU Permanent Representatives agreed on the extension of individual sanctions against the Russian Federation until September 2019. A symbolic step on the fifth anniversary of the beginning of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” wrote Tochytsky on Twitter on Wednesday.