A total of eight individuals and legal entities were subject to the new sanctions.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said that his country has imposed new sanctions on eight Russian organizations and citizens over a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine , Interfax-Ukraine reports.
New Zealand continues to unequivocally condemn unjustified and illegal Russia's attack on Ukraine, “Mahuta said in a statement posted on the government's website. The New Zealand Foreign Minister added that the current sanctions reflect a complete rejection of Moscow's attempts to” mislead the international community. ” p>According to Mahuta, the latest sanctions are aimed at eight individuals and legal entities involved in Putin's “disinformation campaign” and “cyber attacks on Ukraine.”
They are based on earlier New Zealand sanctions against propagandists, and expand our list of sanctions to include the infamous “troll farm”, a representative of the Ministry of Defense of Russia and others, “- said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand.
So the sanctions affected:
- official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov;
- Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of Russia (GRU) Igor Kostyukov;
- Director General of the VDTRK Oleg Dobrodeev;
- President of the media holding “Krasnaya star “Alexei Pimanov;
- co-founder of NewsFront news portal Mikhail Sinelin.
In addition, the sanctions affected:
- 85th main center of the special service (DCSS) of the General Staff of Russia;
- “Main Center for Special Technologies” of the General Directorate (GU) of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces;
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Last week, New Zealand imposed sanctions on 170 members of the Federation Council and a number of Russian defense companies . Prior to that, the country imposed sanctions on 18 Russian financial institutions. The list includes the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the National Welfare Fund.
