168 Russian military industry, mining and energy sector companies have been included in the European Union (EU) blacklist.

APA reports that Valdis Dombrovskis, deputy head of the European Commission, wrote about this on Twitter.

"The 9th package of EU sanctions against Russia has been agreed and will be implemented in the next few days," Dombrovskis said.

"Also, we are expanding investment bans on Russia's energy and mining, Russian business service sector (advertising, market research, public opinion polls, etc.)," ​​he stressed.