Ukraine welcomes the adoption of new EU and U.S. sanctions against Russia, Ukraine's Presidential Administration has said.

"Ukraine welcomes a responsible decision by the EU to strengthen sanctions against Russia... For the first time since the beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine, EU sanctions have gone beyond personal restrictive measures like freezing of accounts and visa bans," Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Valeriy Chaly said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.

He called it an "appropriate step" on the part of European partners, which is a sign of compliance with values by the EU.

"We believe that such steps are effective enough: they will produce a resul t," he said, adding that a third package of sanctions against Russia "has become a reality."

In his opinion, a very important reason for such actions by the EU and the United States was the unchanged situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where militants continue to receive equipment and fire support from Russia, as well as the crash of the Malaysia Airlines aircraft in eastern Ukraine.