MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. Moscow has significantly expanded the list of representatives of European institutions and EU member-states banned from entering the Russian territory in response to the twelfth package of anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"The European Union continues fruitless attempts to exert pressure on Russia through unilateral restrictive measures. On December 18, EU countries adopted the next 12th sanctions package. In response to these actions that are unfriendly, illegitimate and undermine international legal prerogatives of the UN Security Council, the Russian side significantly expanded the list of representatives of European institutions and European Union member-countries, whose entry to the territory of our state is prohibited in accordance with the Federal Law 'On the procedure of departing from the Russian Federation and entering the Russian Federation' of August 15, 1996 No. 114-FZ," the ministry said.

Representatives of law enforcement agencies and commercial organizations of EU countries and EU nationals "responsible for providing military aid to the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev" are among those banned from entering Russia, the ministry added.