KIYIV, Ukraine: While visiting Ukraine this week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australia will ban Russian gold imports and provide 34 additional armored vehicles to Ukraine.

Speaking at a press conference in the capital, Kyiv, alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky, Albanese stressed that Australia would impose sanctions and travel bans on 16 more Russian ministers and oligarchs, bringing the total number of Russian individuals sanctioned by the country to 843.

Australia will provide 14 more armored personnel carriers and 20 Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine, he added