EU summit participants not to impose new sanctions on Russia — source

Participants in the current EU summit do not intend to impose economic sanctions on Russia on Friday, a source in the delegation from a Western European country said with confidence to ITAR-TASS.
“Preliminary consultations show that today almost no leaders of EU states find it necessary to impose trade and economic sectoral sanctions on Russia,” he noted.

He said that the conflict in eastern Ukraine is developing. Volunteers and weapons are still arriving in the conflict zone across the Russian border. "At the same time we observe the positive development, including the Russian parliament decision about the Russian troops in Ukraine and a dialogue at the highest level between Russia and Ukraine," he said.

According to the diplomat, in these conditions, “the imposition of economic sanctions would be counterproductive”.
Earlier, Chairman of the EU representation in Ukraine Jan Tombinski said that EU countries have no intention to introduce new economic sanctions against Russia.
“Nobody wants that really. The goal of sanctions is not to introduce them, the goal is to make the very threat of them an impulse to correct policies,” he added.