Russia has banned fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy imports from the US, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway, Russia's prime minister told a government meeting on Thursday.

Dmitry Medvedev said the ban was effective immediately and would last for one year.

Russian officials were on Wednesday asked to come up with a list of western agricultural products and raw materials to be banned.

The agriculture minister, Nikolai Fyodorov, said on Thursday that greater quantities of Brazilian meat and New Zealand cheese would be imported to offset the newly prohibited items. He added Moscow was in talks with Belarus and Kazakhstan to prevent the banned western foodstuffs being exported to Russia from the two countries.

The Kremlin's move comes in response to the grounding of the budget airline subsidiary of Aeroflot as a result of EU sanctions over Moscow's support for rebels in Ukraine.

Medvedev also said officials were considering a ban on European airlines flying to Asia over Siberia.

Russia is Europe's second-largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables. Exports of food and raw materials to Russia were worth €12.2bn (£9.7bn) in 2013, following several years of double-digit growth.

The UK is less likely to lose out; in 2013, its biggest food and drink export was £17m of frozen fish, followed by £5.7m of cheese and £5.3m of coffee.

Food has already been caught up in political tensions between Russia and the west. In recent days Russian food safety authorities have banned the import of Polish fruit and vegetables, while McDonald's cheeseburgers and milkshakes are being investigated by a regional branch of consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor.

EU pork was banned at the start of the year as the Ukraine crisis escalated, cutting off 25% of all European pig meat exports in a move that the European commission said exposed European farmers to significant losses.

EU countries and the US last week stepped up punitive action against Russia in response to Moscow's support for eastern separatists in Ukraine, which has been unwavering despite the downing of Malaysian airliner MH17.

Russia's state-owned banks have been cut off from Europe's capital markets, while its defence and energy firms will no longer be able to import hi-tech western equipment that could have been used for military purposes, fracking or Arctic oil exploration.

The banned items

• Cattle meat: fresh, chilled or frozen

• Pork: fresh, chilled or frozen

• Poultry and its subproducts: fresh, chilled or frozen

• Salted, dried or smoked meat

• Fish, shellfish, scallops and other aquatic invertebrates

• Milk and dairy products

• Vegetables

• Fruit

• Nuts

• Sausage and similar meat products

• Cheese and similar products