The sanctions against Yanukovych and colleagues are extended

EU extended sanctions against Yanukovych and his associates for another year. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the EU member states in Brussels.

Official decision to extend sanctions against the ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who is now hiding in Russia, and 15 of his associates will be adopted on the 4 of March on the meeting of the EU Council. However, from the sanctions list was excluded the former Health Minister Raisa Bogatyrev.

We also recall that on the 1 of March Vitaliy Serdyuk, the  lawyer of Yanukovych, told about the likely return of the former president to the territory of Ukraine.