Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (Photo: AFP/VNA)

Some 200 individuals and legal entities were added to the current list. This was done to protect the interests of the state, companies, and citizens of Russia, Medvedev said on Twitter.

The sanctions already affected 68 Ukrainian companies and 322 citizens, including Serhiy Yarovoy, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and several members of the Petro Poroshenko ‘Solidarity” bloc.