The Council of the European Union announced in a statement on the 28th, in view of the EU that the implementation of the Minsk agreement is still not ideal, decided to renew the economic sanctions against Russia to January 31, 2018. EU economic sanctions against Russia mainly for financial, energy, defense and civilian and civilian products. In July 2014, the EU imposed economic sanctions against Russia on the grounds that Russia "made unstable in the eastern part of Ukraine". Followed by the expansion of economic sanctions in September the same year, and repeatedly extended the deadline. Since the Minsk agreement was not fully implemented, the EU had extended its economic sanctions three times to July 31, 2017.