EU sanctions against Russia will automatically come into force next Monday if no progress is made on achieving a peaceful settlement to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

"The sanctions will come into effect next Monday, unless EU Foreign Ministers, of course, decide that we have reached an absolute progress [on settling the situation in Donbas]. Then certain additional decisions will be possibly made," he said, at a meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Garcia-Margallo y Marfil in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Klimkin added that sanctions against Russia "are currently certain and automatic."