The participants in an informal EU summit did not rule out new sentences about Russia, If the implementation of the new Minsk arrangements go wrong, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"If all goes well, we will be happy to accompany this process (on the implementation of the new arrangements in Ukraine), If there are difficulties, we do not exclude further punishments," she told reporters on the results of the summit, broadcast live from Brussels maintains the website of the European Commission.

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