The press service of the Council of the EU said that on October 14 the relevant measures were extended until October 16, 2020.
“These sanctions, which consist of a ban on travel to the EU and freezing assets for individuals and legal entities, are currently applied to nine people: five of them are related to the Syrian regime, and four are involved in the Salisbury attack,” TASS quoted as saying .
The report said that the sanctions list also includes a research center in Syria, which is suspected of "developing chemical weapons."
In July, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova urged not to write detective stories about the Skripals case.
In May, the United States prepared a second package of sanctions against Russia in the Skripals case.