The Federation Council appreciated the EU's decision to extend anti-Russian sanctions for the first time for a year.

The extension of anti-Russian sanctions by the European Union (EU) for a year will not give any result. This opinion was expressed by the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Vladimir Jabarov, on Friday, June 19.

On this day, it became known that the leaders of the EU countries at the summit in Brussels agreed to extend sanctions against Russia for a year. 360.ru . Previously, such measures were extended every six months, IA Regnum clarifies.

"They will not succeed — they will extend it for six months, for a year, even for two. Russia is a sovereign country, it has developed and will continue to develop, and Europe will regret this sooner or later," the senator said in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

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On June 15, the EU expanded the list of anti-Russian sanctions, adding more than 80 individuals and organizations to it. The list includes Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Alexander Gutsan. In addition, restrictions were imposed against Oleg Yevtushenko, Executive Director of Rostec State Corporation, Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the arms cluster of the state corporation, and Alexey Rakhmanov, former CEO of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova promised a tough response to the latest EU sanctions at a briefing on June 18. She called the restrictions illegitimate and self-revealing.