The sanctions extended for another year. About this in his Twitter said the Brussels correspondent of "Radio Liberty" Rickard Yozvyak.

According to him the ambassadors of today's meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU decided to freeze the assets of Yanukovych and 14 other people from his entourage for a year. At the same journalist he said that the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yuriy Ivanyushchenko excluded from sanctions list.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, today Yozvyak Rickard said that the ambassadors of the European Union countries at a meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the European Union approved the decision on the future of visa-free regime for Ukrainians.