Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta has not directly communicated with New Zealand’s Ambassador to Russia or our Embassy in Moscow since the Ukraine invasion began.

Brownlee, National’s foreign affairs spokesperson and a former Foreign Affairs Minister, said the lack of communication between Mahuta and the embassy “makes no sense”.

[…] Former Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters is also shocked. He told Newshub the minister should be making contact with the embassy given the magnitude of the events taking place there. 

“It is utterly extraordinary… for there to be no contact in such a critical time with the invasion, especially when those at the embassy and those of other nation’s embassies are suffering for ‘not being on the right side’ in the Kremlin’s eyes.”

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