About this, according to RIA Novosti, he said after a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

Rau expressed confidence in the need for new restrictions on Russia.

“I think that we need to accept this package, put it into practice and immediately get down to new ones,” the diplomat stressed.

Earlier, the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, said that the tenth package of anti-Russian sanctions would be adopted by February 24.