The imposition of sanctions on Ukraine if it signs an association agreement with the EU is irrelevant now, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

"We will be acting in line with the agreement and the treaty and will first conduct consultations, just as is directly stipulated in Appendix 6 [to the CIS treaty on a free trade area]. And after that, if there is a fact of massive shipment of goods at certain prices or if a threat of such a shipment is determined, a decision can be applied. But this is not on the agenda now," Medvedev said.

If need be, the said sanctions may be applied by the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union member-states or other countries, he added.