The EU will prolong its sanction against state representatives of Russia if the crisis in Donbas worsens, the Presidential Administration of Ukraine has reported.

"We agreed that if the situation remains the same, the EU would decide to prolong the so-called personal sanctions against certain representatives of Russia involved in the destabilization of the situation in Donbas, already in September," Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Kostiantyn Yeliseyev said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.