New Zealand imposed sanctions against 170 members of the Federation Council and a number of Russian defense enterprises. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Nanaiya Mahuta, Russian media write..

However, the list of organizations has not yet been disclosed..

Previously, the country imposed sanctions on 18 Russian financial institutions.

The list includes the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the National Welfare Fund.

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Earlier it was reported that the New Zealand government agreed on military non-lethal assistance to Ukraine in the amount of almost $5 million..

The head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, stressed that it was the war, and not sanctions against Russia, that led to food prices rising..