Certainly and absolutely it does. You noted in your remarks that last week Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and the United States together condemned Russia's unprovoked and unjustifiable actions in Ukraine. That was seven of the eight members of the Arctic Council. At the same time they upheld the importance of the council's work in the area of co-operation, but were very clear that, at the moment and given that Russia is currently the chair of the council, members would not be able to travel to Russia. In fact, activity within the council is temporarily paused until there is an opportunity to work together to determine the modalities under which the council could work in light of Russia being the chair.
On March 9th, 2022. See this statement in context.