Australia and New Zealand impose first sanctions on anniversary of special operation

Under the new sanctions of Australia, 90 individuals fell - including Patriarch Kirill, deputy prime ministers and ministers - and 40 legal entities, in particular, military-industrial complex enterprises.New Zealand imposes restrictions on 87 people

On the anniversary of the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Australia imposed new sanctions against RUSSIA and promised additional military assistance to Kyiv, follows from a message on the website of the country's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

“The Australian Government has imposed additional targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on 90 people and targeted financial sanctions on 40 entities. The new sanctions targets include Russian ministers in charge of energy, natural resources, industry, education, labour, migration and HEALTH,” the statement said.

In addition, those who were involved in the Kremlin’s information campaign and defense enterprises were named among those who were under sanctions: the Kalashnikov concern, the Admiralty Shipyards, Tupolev companies, the State Rocket Center named after Academician V.P. Makeev and Kurganmashzavod.

TASS, citing the Australian Interior Ministry, writes that the sanctions lists included:

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill; Deputy Prime Ministers Alexander Novak, Alexei Overchuk, Victoria Abramchenko, Tatyana Golikova and Denis Manturov, Heads of the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry for the Development of the Far East, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Health Nikolai Shulginov, Alexei Chekunkov, Valery Falkov, Anton Kotyakov, Alexander Kozlov , Sergey Kravtsov, Alexander Kurenkov, Olga Lyubimova and Mikhail Murashko. HEAD of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova and members of the CEC; heads of the Border Service of the FSB and the Federal Penitentiary Service Vladimir Kulishov and Arkady Gostev; philosopher Alexander Dugin; General DIRECTOR of Channel One Konstantin Ernst; the Skolkovo Foundation and the Skoltech company; news agency "Sputnik"; Far Eastern Bank and Roseximbank JSC.

As military aid, Canberra promised Kyiv drones.

Sanctions timed to coincide with the anniversary of the start of the special operation were also introduced by New Zealand. They affected 87 people, including politicians and the military, said Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta. According to her, this is "one of the largest rounds" of anti-Russian restrictions by New Zealand.

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On February 24, other Western countries announced plans to introduce new sanctions against Russia. US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that Washington's restrictions will affect a number of banks seen in circumventing Western sanctions.

BLOOMBERG and The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, indicated that the restrictions would also affect 200 Russian individuals and legal entities, including those in the military-industrial industry. The EU also plans to impose sanctions, but the package was not agreed on on February 23. Russia considers restrictions against itself illegitimate.