The United States is expected to decide in the coming days on the sanctions list on the individuals for their involvement in the falsification of elections or violence against protesters, Reuters reported referring to the US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun.

"I expect in just a few short days we will be in a position to be able to definitively identify the additional list of sanctions that we will be imposing in parallel with those that are being enacted by the European Union," Biegun told reporters, though he said neither the United States nor the European Union would necessarily wait for the other to impose the penalties.