{"id":562516,"date":"2026-08-08T05:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562516\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:44:14","slug":"new-zealand-places-further-sanctions-against-russia-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562516\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand places further sanctions against Russia supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cChildren should never be used as instruments of war,\u201d he said. \u201cNew Zealand remains deeply concerned by efforts to abduct and re-educate Ukrainian children through coercive state-directed programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The package also targets malicious cyber actors and people involved in spreading anti-Ukraine propaganda aimed at legitimising Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Peters said cyber activity could have real-world consequences, including helping Russia gather intelligence, evade sanctions and disrupt opponents of its war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNew Zealand stands with our partners in calling out Moscow\u2019s use of these actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">This is New Zealand\u2019s 36th round of sanctions against Russia, since the Russia Sanctions Act came into force in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">More than 2000 individuals, entities and vessels have now been sanctioned by New Zealand, alongside trade measures targeting Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cChildren should never be used as instruments of war,\u201d he said. \u201cNew Zealand remains deeply concerned by efforts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9092,14724,117,111,43,139,69,22399,8105,8565,20420,80],"class_list":["post-562516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-against","tag-further","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-places","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-supporters","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}