"Ministers…were indicating the fact that we are going in the right direction on the Minsk agreement implementation but still far from having a full implementation, and so an indication of the need to roll over the sanctions for further period of time," Mogherini said following a meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.
"There is a European Council on Thursday, so my factual assessment is that most probably it will be on that agenda, but…politically let me say the general assessment today was clearly going in the direction towards rolling over the sanctions," Mogherini stressed.
Both the European Union and the United States imposed several rounds of sanctions against Moscow, following the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014 and the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis later that year.
EU member states agreed that the restrictive measures would remain in place until full implementation of the February Minsk deal on Ukrainian reconciliation.
The EU economic restrictions, which have been prolonged several times, are set to expire on January 31, if the 28-nation bloc does not extend them.
