Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Deputy Foreign Minister Tim Watts made a joint written statement on the issue.
It was reported that 37 new organizations were included in the list of economic sanctions imposed on Russia in the war, which completed its second year, on the grounds that they support Moscow, and travel restrictions were imposed on 55 people.
The statement cited the International Criminal Court’s decision last year to issue an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for committing “war crimes” in Ukraine as a justification for expanding the scope of the sanctions.
The sanctions target Russia’s defense, energy, media and mining sectors, as well as its supply network in Belarus, Iran and North Korea, the statement said, noting that the number of sanctions imposed by Australia on Russia since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine War has reached 1200.
