The government of New Zealand has imposed new sanctions on five individuals and six entities in Russia ans Belarus.
“Russia’s continued illegal occupation of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant threatens nuclear security and safety. New Zealand again calls on Russia to cease its occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and immediately withdraw from Ukrainian territory. The sanctioning of Belarusian actors represents a shared effort with our likeminded international partners to condemn and hold accountable those supporting Russia’s illegal actions,” said Foreign Minister Winston Peters. In summary, New Zealand has sanctioned more than 1,700 individuals and organizations since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
These individuals and entities have been added to New Zealand’s sanctions list:
- Alexander Moroz, Managing director of the Belarusian Optical-Mechanical Association (BelOMO);
- Vladimir Morozov, Head of Belarusian Railway;
- Dzmitryy Shautsou, Secretary General of the Belarus Red Cross;
- Aleksandr Vitko, Chief of the Russian Navy Staff, first Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy;
- Oleg Romanenko, Director General of Joint Stock Company Operating Organization of Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP);
- Belarusian Optical-Mechanical Association (Belarusian producer and seller of military materiel);
- OJSC “Orsha Aircraft Repair Plant” (Belarusian SOE that specialises in aircraft modernisation and repair);
- JSC Operating Organization of Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (Russian SOE in control of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant);
- All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E.I. Zababakhin (Russian research centre);
- Federal State Unitary Enterprise All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Research and development institution of nuclear warheads);
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute (Nuclear research institution).
