Category: Ukraine War

Reuters

Russia sets 0300 GMT deadline for Ukraine troops in Mariupol to surrender

David Ljunggren and Lidia Kelly – April 16, 2022

By David Ljunggren and Lidia Kelly

(Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry has told the Ukrainian forces still fighting in the besieged southern port of Mariupol to lay down their arms starting 6 a.m. Moscow time (0300 GMT) on Sunday to save their lives.

Russia’s earlier claim that its troops had cleared the urban area of Mariupol, scene of the war’s heaviest fighting and worst humanitarian catastrophe, could not be independently verified. It would be the first major city to have fallen to Russian forces since the Feb. 24 invasion.

Moscow said the remaining fighters in Mariupol – who it says are both Ukrainian and foreign – are blockaded in the Azovstal steelworks plant.

“Taking into account the catastrophic situation that has developed at the Azovstal metallurgical plant, as well as being guided by purely humane principles, the Russian Armed Forces offer the militants of nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries from 06:00 (Moscow time) on April 17, 2022, to stop any hostilities and lay down their arms,” the defence ministry said in a statement.

“All who lay down their arms are guaranteed that their lives will be spared.”

Under the terms of deal proposed by Russia on Saturday, the remaining defenders in the Azovstal plant would leave between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. Moscow time, without weapons or ammunition.

The start of the surrender would be indicated by raising flags, the ministry said: “From the Russian side – red; from the Ukrainian side – white, around the whole perimeter of Azovstal.”

There was no immediate reaction from Kyiv to the offer.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Saturday of “deliberately trying to destroy everyone” in Mariupol and said his government was in touch with the defenders. But he did not address Moscow’s claim that Ukrainian forces were no longer in urban districts.

“I want to be heard correctly right now: there has not been a single day since the beginning of the blockade of Mariupol that we have not been seeking a solution – military or diplomatic,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

“But finding this solution is extremely difficult. Until now, there has not been a 100% realistic option.”

Mariupol, with its strategic location on the coast of the Azov Sea, has been a target since the start of the war. It lies on the route between the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea to the west, and the Donetsk region to the east, which has been partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014.

The Russian defence ministry said also that it has “evacuated” 168,000 people out of Mariupol so far. Ukraine has said that thousands have been forcefully departed.

Efforts to evacuate civilians from Mariupol – some with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross – have repeatedly broken down, with both sides blaming each other.

The total capture of Mariupol would give Russia an option to build a land bridge to Crimea and control the entire north shore of the Sea of Azov.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan; Writing by Lidia Kelly)

Yale School Of Management

Over 750 Companies Have Curtailed Operations in Russia—But Some Remain

April 15, 2022

Since the invasion of Ukraine began, we have been tracking the responses of over 1,000 companies. Over 750 companies have publicly announced they are voluntarily curtailing operations in Russia to some degree beyond the bare minimum legally required by international sanctions — but some companies have continued to operate in Russia undeterred. 

Originally a simple “withdraw” vs. “remain” list, our list of companies now consists of five categories—graded on a school-style letter grade scale of A-F for the completeness of withdrawal. 

The list below is updated continuously by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his team of experts, research fellows, and students at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute to reflect new announcements from companies in as close to real time as possible. 

Our list has already garnered extensive coverage for its role in helping catalyze the mass corporate exodus from Russia. 

When this list was first published the week of February 28, only several dozen companies had announced their departure.

Hundreds of companies have withdrawn in the days since, and we are humbled that our list helped galvanize millions around the world to raise awareness and take action. 

Although we are pleased that our list has been widely circulated across company boardrooms, government officials, and media outlets as the most authoritative and comprehensive record of this powerful, historic movement, we are most inspired by the thousands of messages we have received from readers across the globe, especially those from Ukraine, and we continue to welcome your tips – preferably with documentation – insights, and feedback, at jeffrey.sonnenfeld.celi@yale.edu. 

For a sortable, detailed version of the list below, please visit our enhanced database where you can filter companies by letter grade, country, sector, and much more. This database replaces the detailed Excel spreadsheet we previously published, which is now archived as of April 7 and no longer updated. 

Click here to read the new commentary from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian in The New York Times explaining why our list matters, now more than ever. 

If you want to get in touch with the “F” companies found here, you may locate contact information on this non-Yale affiliated website: www.emailcontactukraine.com. We do not endorse nor certify the accuracy of this list of addresses, but in response to frequent requests, we are aware of this external non-Yale resource.

Yale CELI List of Companies

Updated By: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Yale Research Team: Wiktor Babinski, Ricardo Barcelo, Yash Bhansali, Forrest Michael Bomann, Michal Boron, Katie Burke, Adriana Coleska, Samuel Choi, Drew D’Alelio, Hunter Harmon, Georgia Hirsty, Mateusz Kasprowicz, Cate Littlefield, Rémi Moët-Buonaparte, Christophe Navarre, Marina Negroponte, Camillo Padulli, Jeremy Perkins, Magdalena Rego, Franek Sokolowski, Steven Tian, Ryan Vakil, Michal Wyrebkowski, and Steven Zaslavsky.

Last Updated: April 15, 2022

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Digging In

Defying Demands for Exit or Reduction of Activities (198 Companies) (Grade: F)

Companies that are just continuing business-as-usual in Russia…

Name	Action	Industry	Country
Aalberts	still operating in Russia	Industrials	Netherlands
AB InBev	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Belgium
Acerinox	still operating in Russia	Materials	Spain
Agrana	continue operating plant in Russia		Austria
Agricultural Bank of China	Russian companies open accounts with the bank; decline to comment	Financials	China
Aimbridge | Interstate Hotels	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Air Serbia	still flying to Russia	Industrials	Serbia
Alcon	still operating in Russia	Health Care	Switzerland
Alibaba	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	China
Align Technology	still operating in Russia	Health Care	United States
Alpina Žiri	distributors in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Slovenia
Alumil	Not disclosed publicly	Industrials	Greece
Ametek	still operating in Russia		United States
Amgen	still operating in Russia	Health Care	United States
Andritz	continue exports to Russia		Austria
ANT Group	joint venture with the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund		China
Asus	citing conditions for effective standstill in Russian operations without actually suspending operations	Information Technology	Taiwan
Auchan-Retail	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	France
AVL	still operating in Russia		Austria
Bajaj Auto	business as usual		India
Bharat Petroleum (BPCL)	bought 2 million barrels of Russian Urals for May loading		India
Bharti Airtel	business as usual		India
Bonduelle	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	France
Buzzi Unicem	continue operating plants in Russia		Italy
Calzedonia	continue sales in Russia		Italy
CANPACK	still operating in Russia		Poland
Carter’s | Oshkosh	still operating in Russia		United States
Charoen Pokphand Foods	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Thailand
Check Point Software	selling cybersecurity products in Russia	Information Technology	Israel
China Communications Construction Company	planning new infrastructural projects	Industrials	China
China Construction Bank	Russian companies open accounts with the bank; decline to comment	Financials	China
China Life Insurance Company	offices in Russia, actively looks for new Russian employees	Financials	China
China Mobile	business as usual	Communication Services	China
China National Petroleum Corporation	business as usual	Energy	China
China Railway Construction Corporation	continues to build Vladivostok highway in March 2022	Industrials	China
China Railway Engineering Corporation	business as usual	Industrials	China
China State Construction Engineering	contractor to the Russian state	Industrials	China
China State Railway Group Company	increasing coal shipments from Russia		China
China United Network Communications	a subsidiary in Russia: China Unicom (Russia) Operations Limited Liability Company; business as usual	Communication Services	China
Chipita	Not disclosed publicly; still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Greece
Cloudflare	continue sales & services in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Coal India	expecting highest import level in 2 years		India
Cremonini Group	continue sales in Russia		Italy
De Cecco	continue sales and operations in Russia		Italy
Denso	continue operations in Russia		Japan
Didi	explicitly reversed decision to exit Russia	Industrials	China
DJI	continue business in Russia		China
DMK Group	continues sales and plant operations in Russia		Germany
Donaldson Company	continues sales to Russia		United States
Dr Reddys Labs	business as usual		India
Duol	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Slovenia
EDF	still operating in Russia	Utilities	France
Egger	still operating in Russia	Industrials	Austria
ElvalHalcor	Not disclosed publicly	Industrials	Greece
Emirates Airlines	still flying to Russia	Industrials	United Arab Emirates
EMS-Chemie	still operating in Russia	Industrials	Switzerland
Engie	still operating in Russia	Utilities	France
ESAB	still operating in Russia	Industrials	Sweden
Eutelsat	provide satellite TV services to Russia	Communication Services	France
FAW Group	remains silent on whether they will continue operations	Industrials	China
Fleetcor	business as usual	Financials	United States
Flowserve	still operating in Russia	Industrials	United States
Fluidra	continuing sales in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
FM Global	continuing Russian relationships	Financials	United States
Foraco	still operating in Russia	Energy	France
Frigoglass	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Greece
GEA Group	continues operations in Russia		Germany
Gedeon Richter	still operating in Russia	Health Care	Hungary
Geoplin	still purchasing Russian gas from Gazprom	Energy	Slovenia
Geox	continuing operations in Russia		Italy
Global Fashion Group	still operating in Russia		Luxembourg
Globus	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
Gorenje	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Slovenia
Groupe Le Duff	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Groupe Savencia	still operates in Russia	Industrials	France
Grupo Borges | ITLV	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Spain
Grupo Fuertes	still operating in Russia		Spain
Hampidjan	still operating in Russia	Industrials	Iceland
Hengli Group	business as usual	Energy	China
Herend	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Hungary
Hindalco	business as usual		India
HiPP	continue operations and sales in Russia		Switzerland
Honor	business as usual		China
Huawei	still operating in Russia	Information Technology	China
Huntsman Corporation	still operating in Russia	Materials	United States
Ideal Molde	still selling to Russia	Materials	Portugal
IMCD	still operating in Russia		Netherlands
Industrial Bank (China)	offices operating in Moscow, did not answer for Reuters’ calls for commenting on that	Financials	China
Intermedia	still operating in Russia	Information Technology	United States
International Paper	still operating in Russia	Materials	United States
IOC	signed new deal to import Russian oil	Energy	India
Itochu	continues oil & gas exploration partnerships		Japan
Jacques Dessange	still operating in Russia		France
JD.com	business as usual – the Russian store is still fully operational		China
JDE Peet’s	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Netherlands
Jean-Louis David	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Jidian International Trade Co	has purchased at least 50,000 tonnes of coal from Russia since the war broke out – “We are still in the business when many of our peers are out”		China
JSW Steel	business as usual		India
Kaupfélag Skagfirðinga	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Iceland
Kleemann	Not disclosed publicly	Industrials	Greece
Knarr Maritime	members still operating in Russia		Iceland
Koch Industries	still operating in Russia	Industrials	United States
Kotanyi	still exporting to Russia		Austria
Krka	still operating in Russia	Health Care	Slovenia
Kronospan	still operating in Russia	Materials	Austria
Kweichow Moutai	business as usual		China
La Redoute	still operating in Russia	Industrials	France
Laboratorie Servier	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Lacoste	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	France
LACTALIS	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	France
Larsen	business as usual		India
Legrand	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Lenovo	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Hong Kong
Leptos Estates	continues operations in Russia		Cyprus
Leroy Merlin	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Liebherr	No action taken; still operating in Russia	Industrials	Germany
Lisec	still operating in Russia		Austria
Luka Koper	continuing trans shipments		Slovenia
Mahindra & Mahindra	business as usual		India
Makrochem SA	still operating in Russia		Poland
Maxam	still operating in Russia	Materials	Spain
Menarini Group	continue operating plant and research center		Italy
Metro	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
Mitsui	continuing operations within sanctions compliance	Energy	Japan
Mizuho Financial Group	still operating in Russia	Financials	Japan
Mod’s Hair	still operates in Russia		France
MOLGroup	still operating in Russia	Energy	Hungary
Mondi	continue operations in Russia		United Kingdom
MS & AD Insurance Group	continue operations in Russia		Japan
MSI	still operating in Russia	Information Technology	Taiwan
Nature’s Sunshine	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
New Yorker Marketing & Media GmbH	continue to operate and open new stores	Industrials	Germany
NTT	continues to operate cloud services in Russia		Japan
Oasis Logistics Corp	“We are actively exploring opportunities to work with our Russian partners”		China
OCSiAl	still running research center and branch	Information Technology	Luxembourg
Olam Group	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Singapore
ONGC	aggressive selling of Russian Sokoil to other Indian Nationalised Energy corps	Energy	India
Oppo	business as usual		China
Orano	still operating in Russia	Energy	France
Owens Corning	vaguely pursue options to transfer or sell our Russian facilities but no final decision		United States
Paccar	still active in Russia; deny comments	Industrials	United States
Palfinger	still operating in Russia		Austria
Paul Wurth	maintaining commercial activities with Russia	Industrials	Luxembourg
Pentair	still selling to Russian distributors		United States
Phibro Animal Health Corp	continues sales to Russia		United States
Pidilite Ind	business as usual		India
Pilkington	still operating in Russia		Japan
Plastika Kritis	Not disclosed publicly		Greece
Poly Real Estate	a sister company is Poly Technologies, one of China’s largest arms exporters and has been sanctioned by the United States; in Russian tax registry	Real Estate	China
PowerChina	cooperating with a Russian bank “Solidarnost” on off-shore projectes		China
Profilco	Not disclosed publicly	Materials	Greece
Qatar Airways	still flying to Russia		Qatar
Raba	maintain commerical ties with Russian Kamaz	Industrials	Hungary
Raiffeisen Bank International	still operating in Russia	Financials	Austria
Riko	still operating in Russa		Slovenia
Riot Games	still operating in and selling to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Russia Fachspedition Dr. Lassmann	still operating in Russia		Austria
S-Mechaniki	Not disclosed publicly	Industrials	Greece
SAIC Motor	remains operational; plans to increase export	Industrials	China
Sanatmetal	still operating in Russia	Health Care	Hungary
Sany Heavy Industries	business as usual		China
Sarantis	still operating in Russia	Consumer Staples	Greece
Schoeller Bleckmann	still operating in Russia		Austria
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation	defies US sanctions by continuting to export to Russia	Industrials	China
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical	business as usual		China
Signify	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Netherlands
Simba Dickie Group	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
State Grid Corporation of China	business as usual	Utilities	China
Storck	continue candy sales in Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
Sun Pharma	business as usual		India
SWISS KRONO	still operating plant in Russia		Switzerland
Sæplast	not publically disclosed	Industrials	Iceland
Tata Consultancy Services	Universal KUBE – a subsidiary of TSC for the Russian market	Communication Services	India
Tata Steel	business as usual, however looking for alternatives to Russian coal		India
Tech Mahindra	business as usual		India
Tencent	still operating in Russia	Communication Services	China
Tenneco	still operating in Russia; deny comments	Industrials	United States
TEPCO	continues purchases of Russian gas	Utilities	Japan
The China Coal Transportation and Distribution Association	big power plants and about 20 Russian coal companies discussed plans to increase bilateral trade		China
ThyssenKrupp	still operating in Russia		Germany
Titan Company	business as usual		India
Titan International	still operating in Russia	Industrials	United States
Toyota Tsusho	still operating in Russia		Japan
Triglav Group	still operating in Russia		Slovenia
Turkish Airlines	still flying to Russia	Industrials	Turkey
UniCredit	evaluating potential withdrawal but still operating in Russia	Financials	Italy
UnionPay	Russian banks TURN to UnionPay, after Visa and Mastercard left		China
Vanke	business as usual	Utilities	China
Veolia	still operating in Russia	Utilities	France
Vinci SA	still operating in Russia	Industrials	France
Vivo	business as usual		China
Wanhua Chemical Group	business as usual		China
Wienerberger	still operating in Russia		Austria
Xiaomi	still operating in Russia	Information Technology	China
Xibao Metallurgy Materials Group	building a refractory material plant in Lipetsk, Russia		China
Zimmer Biomet	continues sales in Russia		United States
ZTE	business as usual	Communication Services	China
Zwack	Not disclosed publicly	Consumer Staples	Hungary

Buying Time

Holding Off New Investments/Development (134 Companies) (Grade: D)

Companies postponing future planned investment/development/marketing while continuing substantive business…

Name	Action	Industry	Country
Abbott Laboratories	suspend non-essential business activity	Health Care	United States
Abbvie	suspend aesthetics operations, pause new clinical trials	Health Care	United States
Accor	suspend new investments/development	Consumer Discretionary	France
Accumalux	still operating plant in Togliatti, Russia	Industrials	Luxembourg
ADM	unspecified scaling down of non-essential operations	Consumer Staples	United States
Aegon	ending new investments where has control over fund	Financials	Netherlands
Air Liquide	Some clients no longer supplied, others scaled down; all Russian investments on hold	Materials	France
Akrapovič	still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Slovenia
AmerisourceBergen	cease new business initiatives but continue existing clinical trials, and distributing health products	Health Care	United States
Anecoop	diverting sales away from Russia	Consumer Staples	Spain
Arconic	pause new contracts but continue existing	Materials	United States
AstraZeneca	halt new investments/new clinical trials	Health Care	United Kingdom
Baker Hughes	paused new investments/development	Energy	United States
Bang & Bonsomer	suspend new investments but still operating in Russia		Finland
Bank of Cyprus	maintain loan book; observe banking sanctions		Cyprus
Barilla	all new investments and advertising activities on hold	Consumer Staples	Italy
Barry Callebaut	suspend capital investment	Consumer Staples	Switzerland
BASF SE	no new business in Russia & Belarus except certain products	Materials	Germany
Bayer	stopping unspecified non-essential business activity	Health Care	Germany
BlaBlaCar	Stopped new investment but stays in Russia	Industrials	France
Boiron	suspend new investments & stop clinical trials	Health Care	France
Calfrac Well Services	suspension of new investments in Russia	Energy	Canada
Campari	continue sales in Russia but suspend new investments		Italy
Cargill	unspecified scaling down of non-essential operations	Consumer Staples	United States
Carmim	suspend some orders in backlog	Consumer Staples	Portugal
Colgate-Palmolive	continue essential health and hygiene products	Consumer Staples	United States
Corticeira Amorim	commerical activity suspended	Consumer Discretionary	Portugal
Credit Suisse	stop new business in Russia while meaningfully cutting exposure	Financials	Switzerland
Danone	suspend all investment projects but continue dairy products	Consumer Staples	France
Delonghi	paused new shipments and investments	Consumer Discretionary	Italy
dōTERRA	suspend new investment in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Dr. Theiss	suspend advertisement	Health Care	Germany
Ecco	suspend new investments still operating in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Denmark
Ehrmann	continue sales in Russia but suspend new investments	Consumer Staples	Germany
Ekosem Agrar AG	restructuring finances	Consumer Staples	Germany
Eli Lilly	suspend new investments and clinical trials	Health Care	United States
Emerson Electric	halt new investments in Russia	Industrials	United States
ESL	ban people with ties to Russian government	Utilities	Germany
FL Smidth	no new business		Denmark
Focus Brands – Cinnabon	no new investments and expansion plans on hold	Industrials	United States
Fortum	no new investments in Russia; continue operating plants		Finland
Gaz-System	still imports Russian gas, made efforts to diversify		Poland
GlaxoSmithKline	stopped advertising/new clinical trials in Russia	Health Care	United Kingdom
Glencore	stop entering into new Russian commodities trading contracts but continue holding substantive Russian equity stakes	Materials	Switzerland
Greif	canceled future investments in Russia	Materials	United States
GROUPE LIMAGRAIN/JACQUET-BROSSARD	continues flows to Russian and Ukrainian producers but suspends its project to build a seed factory in Russia	Industrials	France
Groupe Seb	suspend new investments and “sharply” reduce activities in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Gruma	halt new investments in Russia	Consumer Staples	Mexico
GXO Logistics	suspend new investments	Industrials	United States
Hellenic Bank	maintain rep offices in Russia; observe all banking sactions		Cyprus
Hellenic Petroleum	seeks new oil supplier to replace Russian oil	Energy	Greece
Henkel	stop ads in state-owned media and freeze future investment plans in Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
HERZ	no new business in Russia		Austria
Hilton	suspend new investments/close corporate office	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Hines	suspend new investments in Russia	Industrials	United States
Hochland	suspend investments but continues sales and plant operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
HSBC	curtail Russian access to capital markets and limit new business	Financials	United Kingdom
Hyatt	suspend investments and new developments	Consumer Discretionary	United States
ID Logistics	suspend new investment in Russia	Industrials	France
Idexx Labs	suspend minor operations and new investments	Industrials	United States
ING Bank	pause all new business		Netherlands
Ingram Micro	no new business in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Intercontinental Hotels	ended new investments/closed corporate office	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Intesa Sanpaolo	suspend new investments and curtail new financing	Financials	Italy
IPG Photonics	suspend new investments and business development in Russia	Information Technology	United States
J. Neves & Fihos (JNF)	paused distribution	Industrials	Portugal
Japan Tobacco	stopped new investments and marketing activities in Russia	Consumer Staples	Japan
Johnson & Johnson	pause patient enrollment in ongoing trials	Health Care	United States
Julius Baer	suspend new business in Russia and reduce current exposure	Financials	Switzerland
KCA Deutag	suspend investments	Energy	United Kingdom
KDDI Corp	continue operations with local staff		Japan
Kimberly-Clark	suspend new investments in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Knauf	still operating across 14 sites in Russia but suspend new investments	Materials	Germany
Kraft Heinz – JBS	stopped new investments and exports/imports from Russia	Industrials	United States
Kubíček VHS	Stopped cooperation	Industrials	Czech Republic
Lamb Weston	halted the export of products to/from Russia and suspended investments in new production	Industrials	United States
Lotos	ready to stop spot purchases of Russian oil	Energy	Poland
Loulis Mills	search for alternative suppliers	Consumer Staples	Greece
Maire Tecnimonet	suspended commercial activities; managing existing backlog		Italy
Manitowoc	stopped taking new orders, still maintaining office in Russia	Industrials	United States
Marel	paused new projects	Consumer Staples	Iceland
Marriott	suspend new investment/close corp. office	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Melamin	making up for shortfall from sanctions	Materials	Slovenia
Merck	no further investments/clinical trial enrollment	Health Care	United States
Mocapor	paused exports	Industrials	Portugal
Mohawk Industries	suspend new investments in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Mondelez – Nabisco	scaling back unspecified non-essential activities in Russia	Industrials	United States
National Oilwell Varco	suspend all new investments in Russia		United States
Naust Marine	stopped projects in Russia	Industrials	Iceland
Nestle	halted non-essential imports/exports to Russia, stopped all advertising, and suspended all capital investment	Consumer Staples	Switzerland
Nippon Steel	searching to replace Russian supplies		Japan
Novartis	pause all new capital investments, media advertising and other promotions; pause new clinical trials and enrollment of new patients	Health Care	Switzerland
Novo Nordisk	continue operations but pause new investments, marketing and clinical trials		Denmark
NTPC	difficulty in transacting with Russian counterparties due to SWIFT issues etc		India
OMV	no new Russian investments; doing strategic review of current Russian gas investments	Energy	Austria
Otis Worldwide	no new investments/new contracts but fulfill existing agreements	Industrials	United States
Pfizer	stopped new investments/clinical trials in Russia	Health Care	United States
Philip Morris	Stop new investments including $150MM, paused marketing, canceled product launches	Consumer Staples	United States
Philips	most operations continue, ended some consumer products		Netherlands
Polpharma	stop all new investments and limit deliveries to essential drugs only	Health Care	Poland
Pottinger	limited deliveries to Russia sales subsidiary		Austria
Procter & Gamble	scale back unspecified operations in Russia and stop new investments	Consumer Staples	United States
Red Bull	suspend new investments	Consumer Staples	Austria
RHI Magnesita	selling down existing stocks in Russia		Austria
Ritter Sport	halt new investments and advertising	Consumer Staples	Germany
Roche	pause new site activation and patient enrollment; continue operating	Health Care	Switzerland
Rockwool	cancel new investments in Russia	Industrials	Denmark
Saipem	halt new investments	Energy	Italy
Sanofi	halting advertising and promotional spending and new recruitment of patients clinical trials, continue medical supply and treating current patients	Health Care	France
Sarandopoulos Cylindrical Mills	search for alternative suppliers	Consumer Staples	Greece
SC Johnson	stopped new investments and scaled back unspecified operations	Consumer Staples	United States
Schlumberger	stopped new investment and technology deployment to our Russia operations	Energy	United States
Schneider Electric	halted new investments and international delivery of new project orders destined to Russia and Belarus	Industrials	France
Siemens	all new business in and international deliveries to Russia and Belarus are on hold	Industrials	Germany
Siemens Energy AG (Independent)	freeze new business in Russia	Industrials	Germany
Sigma Group	Stopped cooperation	Industrials	Czech Republic
SRV	outline steps to stop procurement of building materials from Russia	Materials	Finland
Subway	suspend new investments/advertising		United States
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial	continue operations with local staff		Japan
Technip Energies	continuing existing projects; no new business		France
Torm	no new business with Russia		Denmark
Toshulin	Stopped cooperation	Industrials	Czech Republic
Trafigura	froze investments in Russia	Energy	Singapore
TZMO	stopped new investments		Poland
UBS	suspend new business in Russia and reduce current exposure by helping clients unwind Russia securities	Financials	Switzerland
Unilever	stopped inports/exports and stopped all advertising and investments	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Vestas	continue operations but no new contracts		Denmark
Vimeo	not accept new customers from Russia	Utilities	United States
Weatherford International	suspend new investments/deployments in Russia	Energy	United States
Welltec	suspend all new investments in Russia		Denmark
WePlay	freeze Russian-language projects	Utilities	United States
Wintershall Dea AG	maintain Russian natural gas projects and critical infrastructure; write-off Nord Stream2 loans	Energy	Germany
Young Living	suspend new investments in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Yves Rocher	suspend new investments/development	Consumer Staples	France

Scaling Back

Reducing Current Operations (99 Companies) (Grade: C)

Companies that are scaling back some significant business operations but continuing some others…

Name	Action	Industry	Country
AGCO	stop sale of new machines to Russia		United States
AkzoNobel	suspend new investments in Russia; end Aerospace work	Materials	Netherlands
Allianz	meaningfully reduce exposure to Russia	Financials	Germany
Amadeus IT Group	suspend partnership with Aeroflot	Information Technology	Spain
AmRest	suspend operations with some brands in Russia	Consumer Staples	Spain
Aspo	reducing operations in Russia		Finland
Bacardi	paused exports to Russia but not domestic operations	Consumer Staples	Bermuda
Beiersdorf	maintain skin and bodycare products; stop other products	Consumer Staples	Germany
Black Red White	divesting from Russian subsidiary, still has a significant stake in a company operating in Belarus, which also suspended Russian exports	Consumer Discretionary	Poland
Boehringer Ingelheim	scale back to just supplying medicine	Health Care	Germany
Bosch	suspend some shipments and plants but not all	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Bunge	suspend exports but continue certain domestic	Consumer Staples	United States
Bureau Veritas	scaled back	Industrials	France
Caterpillar	suspend minor Russian manufacturing facilities but not import sales	Industrials	United States
CHR Hansen	suspend operations outside of staple food products		Denmark
Coinbase	block certain illicit Russian accounts but not all	Financials	United States
Confor Step	Stopped producing or shipping to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Portugal
Corning	suspend almost all sales in Russia except minor life-saving products	Information Technology	United States
Deere	suspend shipments into Russia only	Industrials	United States
Dover Corporation	ramping down sales activity and focusing on liquidating working capital		United States
Dow	suspend investments/some purchases but not all	Materials	United States
Eaton	stop shipments to Russia; maintains services		United States
Eimskip	reduced operation in Russia	Industrials	Iceland
Elanco	scale back to critical products to ensure food security		United States
Elsevier	suspended all sales except essential health products	Communication Services	United States
Enel	suspend current investments; working to divest current assets		Italy
FANUC	stopped shipments and limited service	Information Technology	Japan
Ferrero	suspend non-essential business activity	Consumer Staples	Italy
Fieldfisher	terminate certain Russian relationships	Industrials	United Kingdom
FIGMA	continue current business & stop all new sales efforts in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Fortive	suspend most operations except medical essentials	Industrials	United States
GE	stopped sales in Russia and Belarus except medical equipment and support for electric power generation and transmission	Industrials	United States
General Mills	suspended sales of global brands in its JV	Consumer Staples	United States
Goldman Sachs	wind down business in Russia but buy Russian debt	Financials	United States
Groupe BPCE	suspend many transactions and cease new financing	Financials	France
Halliburton	suspend future business in Russia and wind down current	Energy	United States
HILTI	limiting sales and workforce in Russia		Liechtenstein
Hostinger	stop accepting payments for new purchases and renewals	Information Technology	Lithuania
Idemitsu Kosan	stop coal imports; lubricants business unchanged		Japan
IndusInd Bank	can no longer clear rupee rouble conversions		India
Ingersoll Rand	scale back to only health critical services		United States
Ingka	stop all exports, IKEA production; keep open retail centers (Mega)	Consumer Discretionary	Netherlands
International Biathlon Union	Russians to compete as neutral athletes
Iskratel	paused some business with Russia	Communication Services	Slovenia
Iveco	suspend deliveries to Russia; truck JV still in operations	Industrials	Italy
JPMorgan	wind down business in Russia but buy Russian debt	Financials	United States
Kellogg	suspend new investments except essentials (minor)	Consumer Staples	United States
Kotak Mahindra	paused transaction through cards in Russia		India
Legal & General	reduce exposure	Financials	United Kingdom
Linde	divest certain industrial assets and suspend new development/investments	Energy	Germany
Loyalty Ventures	scaled back most services and stopped new sales		United States
LyondellBasell	end all business with state-controlled entities	Materials	Netherlands
Mars	scale back business and stopped advertising/new investments/exports in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Marubeni	scaling down but still in numerous projects across Russia		Japan
Maruti Suzuki	suspend car exports		India
Mashreqbank	halt loans to Russia	Financials	United Arab Emirates
Microsoft	suspend new sales in Russia but existing users can still access	Information Technology	United States
Miele	suspend operations except exempt healthcare	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Milliken & Co	still operating in Russia	Materials	United States
Miro	close office in Moscow & pause new sales	Utilities	Netherlands
Nalco Water (Ecolab)	suspended services except services critical to health	Industrials	United States
Natura	suspend some subsidiary operations but not all		United States
NielsenIQ	suspend consulting service but not core business	Industrials	United States
Nokian Tyres	meaningfully reduce production in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Finland
Norsk Hydro	reduced deliveries and supplies to the contractual minimum for some commitments, and is suspending deliveries and supply in several contracts	Materials	Norway
Oriflame Cosmetics	suspend online sales to end consumers but not others	Consumer Staples	Switzerland
Orion	stop exports to Russia		Finland
Orsted	end coal and biomass purchases, refuse to pay for gas in roubles		Denmark
Pepsi	suspend operations in Russia except essentials	Consumer Staples	United States
Pirelli	suspend new investments in Russia and scale back production	Consumer Discretionary	Italy
PKN Orlen SA	stopped maritime oil shipments, diversifying supply	Energy	Poland
Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA	halts import of Russian gas beginning 2023	Energy	Poland
PPG	scale back majority of operations and suspend new investments in Russia	Materials	United States
Reliance	released intention for avoid Russian fuel		India
Rosenbauer	no new business; continue servicing fire engine pumps in Russian JV		Austria
Royal DSM	stopped all operations in Russia other than basic food/feed/essential health activities		Netherlands
Sabre	suspend certain partnerships with Aeroflot	Information Technology	United States
Saint-Gobain	suspend exports and imports but not local operations	Industrials	France
SBI	stopped processing transactions of sanctioned Russian entities		India
Scopely	suspend marketing and commerce	Utilities	United States
SEB	scaling down operations in Russia		Sweden
Sinopec	suspend $500MM new investment and significant operations and partnerships	Energy	China
Skadden	suspend certain operations in Russia but not all	Industrials	United States
Tata Motors	paused sale of JLR in Russia		India
Tchibo	suspend coffee deliveries but not other lines	Consumer Staples	Germany
Tennant	substantially suspending sales to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Tetra Pak	stopped new investments and scaled down activities		Sweden
Tikkurila	reduce Russian operations; stop sales to aerospace		Finland
Tokio Marine	suspend new contracts and repatriate employees		Japan
Total Energies	no longer will provide capital for new projects in Russia/stop purchasing Russian oil	Energy	France
Tungsram	stopped producing products and projects	Utilities	Hungary
Uniper SE	suspend new Russian gas purchases/divest Unipro	Utilities	Germany
Vattenfall	shifting energy purchases away from Russia		Sweden
Wartsila	suspend all deliveries and new sales to Russia; continue ongoing projects	Industrials	Finland
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp	stopped sales to Russia		United States
Whirlpool	limiting production in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Wolters Kluwer	scale back to just health products in Russia		Netherlands
Yum Brands	suspend operations of company-owned restaurants and new investments in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Zoetis	suspend investments & focus on supply of medicines and vaccines	Health Care	United States

Suspension

Keeping Options Open for Return (360 Companies) (Grade: B)

Companies temporarily curtailing most or nearly all operations while keeping return options open…

Name	Action	Industry	Country
3M	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
AAK	halted delivery and sales	Consumer Staples	Sweden
Abrdn	suspend investments in Russia and reduce exposure	Financials	United Kingdom
ACCA	suspend operations in Russia and Belarus	Utilities	United Kingdom
Acer	suspend its business in Russia	Information Technology	Taiwan
Adidas	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Adobe	suspend all sales in Russia	Information Technology	United States
ADP	suspend sales/services to Russia	Information Technology	United States
AICPA	suspend sale and delivery of services indefinitely	Utilities	United States
Air Astana	suspend flights to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Kazakhstan
Airbus	suspend supply of parts to Aeroflot	Industrials	Netherlands
Akamai	suspend sales in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Akin Gump	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
AL-KO Vehicle Technology	suspend deliveries to Russia and Belarus	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Alimentation Couche-Tard	suspend operations	Consumer Staples	Canada
Alphabet	suspend all operations in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Alstom	suspend shipments to Russia	Industrials	France
AM Best	suspend all commercial activities to Russian clients	Information Technology	United States
Amazon	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Ambarella	suspend shipments into Russia	Information Technology	United States
American Express	suspend operations in Russia	Financials	United States
Amway	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Analog Devices	suspend sales to Russia according to sanctions		United States
Aon PLC	suspend operations in Russia	Financials	United Kingdom
Apple	suspend all sales	Information Technology	United States
ARM	suspend shipments according to sanctions		United Kingdom
ASBIS	suspended economic activities in Russia		Cyprus
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	China
Association of International Certified Professional Accountants	indefinite suspension of services within Russia	Industrials	United States
Aston Martin	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Atlas Copco	suspend deliveries in Russia	Industrials	Sweden
Atlassia	suspend software sales to Russia	Information Technology	Australia
Audi	suspend operations at Kaluga assembly plant	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Azerbaijan Airlines	suspend flights to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Azerbaijan
B Lab	suspend Russian companies from obtaining certifications	Utilities	United States
Badminton World Federation	cancel all tournaments
Bang & Olufsen	suspended deliveries and sales to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Denmark
Bank of China	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	China
Bentley	suspend all shipments to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Big Fish Games	suspend downloadable game business in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
BMW	suspend exports to and production in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
BNP Paribas	suspend new business in Russia/curtail financing	Financials	France
Boeing	suspend operations in Russia/titanium purchases	Industrials	United States
Bombardier	restrict Russian business	Industrials	Canada
Boosteroid Cloud Gaming	suspend services to Russia	Utilities	United Arab Emirates
Boryszew	suspended operations in Russia	Materials	Poland
Brav	suspend sales and operations in Russia		Norway
Bridgestone Tire	suspend manufacturing in Russia and shipments into	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
BUDVAR Centrum Sp.			Poland
Budweiser Budvar	suspends production and supply of beer	Consumer Staples	Czech Republic
Burberry	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Burger King (Restaurant Brands)	halt corporate support for franchises	Industrials	United States
Buta Airways	suspend flights to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Azerbaijan
Canada Goose	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Canada
Canadian Tire	close Russia stores	Consumer Discretionary	Canada
Canon	suspend deliveries in Russia	Information Technology	Japan
CBRE	discontinue Russian business	Real Estate	United States
CCC	suspends operations in Russia (delivery to Russia, further expansion)	Information Technology	Poland
CERN	suspend Russia’s obeserver status; halt new collaborations	Utilities	Switzerland
Chanel	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Chevron	Pausing all transactions and sales of refining products, lubricants, and chemicals	Energy	United States
Chipperfield	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Cie Automotives	temporarily shut down aluminum plant	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
Ciena	suspend business operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Cisco	suspend all operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Citi	expand the scope of the exit process	Financials	United States
Citrix	suspend all sales to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Cleary Gottlieb	suspend Russian operations	Industrials	United States
Clorox	suspend business activity in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Clutch	suspend all business activity	Utilities	United States
CMA CGM	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	France
CME Group	suspend acceptance of certain Russian commodities	Financials	United States
CNH Industrial	suspend sales to Russia		Italy
Coca-Cola	suspend certain operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Cogent Communications	cut all internet to Russia	Communication Services	United States
Commerzbank	suspend operations in Russia	Financials	Germany
Conde Nast	suspend all publishing operations	Utilities	United States
Conformis	suspend distribution operations in Russia	Health Care	United States
Continental	suspend operations at a factory	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Costco	stopped purchases from Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Coty	suspend commercial operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Credit Agricole	suspend all services in Russia	Financials	France
Crocs	suspend D2C business	Consumer Discretionary	United States
d&b audiotechnik	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
DACHSER	suspend deliveries to Russia	Utilities	Germany
Danaher	suspended shipments to Russia except for humanitarian medical products	Industrials	United States
Dassault Aviation	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	France
Debevoise & Plimpton	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Decathlon	suspend the operation of its stores in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Dell	suspend all shipments to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Depositphotos	stop all sales and services to Russia	Utilities	Ukraine
Deutsche Bank	wind down business in Russia	Financials	Germany
DHL	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Germany
Diageo	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
DirecTV	cut Kremlin backed TV networks	Communication Services	United States
Discover	suspend efforts to establish Russian presence	Communication Services	United States
Disney	pause new content releases	Communication Services	United States
DPD	suspend shipments to Russia	Industrials	Germany
DSV A/S	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Denmark
Dunkin Donuts	halt corporate support for franchisees	Consumer Discretionary	United States
DuPont	suspend operations in Russia and Belarus	Materials	United States
eDreams ODIGEO	cease all operations involving Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
Edrington	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Egon Zehnder	stop operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Electrolux	suspending all shipments into Russia		Sweden
Elopak	suspends all activities	Materials	Norway
Embraer	suspend supplying parts and services to Russia	Industrials	Brazil
Epiroc	pause all deliveries to Russia and no operations domestically	Consumer Staples	Sweden
Eppendorf SE	suspend exports to Russia; keep rep office open	Health Care	Germany
Epson	suspend exports to Russia & Belarus	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Equinix	suspend Russian partnerships and customers	Real Estate	United States
Ericsson	suspend all shipments to Russia	Information Technology	Sweden
Estee Lauder	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
European University Association	cease cooperation with governmental agencies in Russia
Exor	holding company’s assets are suspending operations	Financials	Netherlands
FedEx	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	United States
Ferrari	suspend sales in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Italy
FIDE	suspend Russian & Belarussian teams from participation in tournaments		Switzerland
Finnlines	suspend all traffic to Russia	Utilities	Finnland
Fiverr	suspend business	Utilities	Isarel
Ford	suspend joint ventures in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Foster + Partners	stop work on projects in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Fugro	suspend all projects in Russia		Netherlands
Fujitsu	cease orders and shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Galp	suspend Russian oil-product purchases; eliminate Russian exposure	Energy	Portugal
Garmin	stop all future trade with Russia		United States
Geberit	discontinue all operations in Russia but continue to pay employees	Industrials	Switzerland
Gestamp	stopped production	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
GetYourGuide	suspend all Russian operations	Utilities	Switzerland
GM	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Goodyear	suspend shipments of tires to Russia		United States
Graphisoft	suspended new activities, disabled access to our commercial services in Russia	Information Technology	Hungary
Grundfos	suspend all operations and sales in Russia		Denmark
Grupo Antolín	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
Grupo Bimbo	Suspended distribution of the Bimbo Brand at retail, but left Moscow Bimbo QSR plant operating for food service products	Consumer Staples	Mexico
H&M	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Sweden
Hannover Re	halt underwriting business	Utilities	Germany
Hapag Lloyd	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Germany
HARIBO	suspend production to Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
Harley-Davidson	suspending all business in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Hellenic Bottling Company	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	Greece
Herbalife	suspend sales and shipments to Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Hermes	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Herzog & de Meuron	suspend work on Russian projects	Utilities	Switzerland
HHLA	suspend entry of Russian shipments at owned ports	Financials	Germany
Hitachi Construction	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Japan
HMM	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	South Korea
Honda	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Honey Group	suspend sales to Russia	Consumer Staples	Finland
Honeywell	suspend virtually all sales in Russia	Industrials	United States
HP Enterprise (Independent from HP Inc.)	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	United States
HP Inc.	suspend all shipments to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Hugo Boss	temporarily close stores and e-commerce sites	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Hyundai	suspend manufacturing in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	South Korea
Iberia	canceling flights to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
IBM	suspend technology sales to Russia on Feb 24	Information Technology	United States
ICBC	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	China
Ikea	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Sweden
Illinois Tool Works	suspension of sales to Russia		United States
Imperial Brands	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Indeed	suspend service in Russia	Industrials	United States
Inditex	close Russian stores and suspend sales	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
Institute of Internal Auditors	suspend business in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Intel	suspend sales to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Interactive Advertising Bureau	suspend licensing in Russia and Belearus	Utilities	United States
Intercomm Foods	Stopping shipments to Russia	Consumer Staples	Greece
International Canoe Federation	suspend Russian athletes & relocate Russian events
International Federation of Sport Climbing	suspend Russian teams from participation; supend Russian events
International Paraolympic Committe	bar Russian atheletes
Intuit	suspend customer accounts	Information Technology	United States
Jablotron	halts sales and blocks data services to products assempled in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Czech Republic
Jaguar	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
JCB	suspend operations in Russia	Financials	Japan
JD Sports	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Johnson Controls	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	Ireland
Julipedra	suspended exports to Russia	Materials	Portugal
Jungheinrich	keep Russia office; stop exports to Russia	Industrials	Germany
Juniper Networks	suspend sales in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Kemira	suspend deliveries to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Finland
Kepenou Mills	stop wheat orders from Russia	Consumer Staples	Greece
Kering	close all stores in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Kerry Group	suspending operations	Consumer Staples	Ireland
KGHM	suspended Russian contracts, subsidiary ZANAM Vostok in Russia	Materials	Poland
Kinross Gold	suspend operations in Russia	Materials	Canada
Knight Frank	suspend substantive operations in Russia	Real Estate	United Kingdom
Komatsu	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Japan
KONE	suspend deliveries to Russia & stop new Russian orders	Consumer Discretionary	Finland
Konica Minolta	new shipments suspended	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Korn Ferry	suspend business in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Kurokesu	suspend shippments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Lithuania
L’Occitane	close all stores and e-commerce site in Russia		France
L’Oreal	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
LCBO	suspend Russian-produced products	Consumer Staples	Canda
Lego	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Denmark
Leica Camera AG	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	Germany
Leonardo	pause all JVs in Russia; helicopter production		Italy
Levi Strauss	suspend all sales in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Lexmark	suspend shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
LG Electronics	suspend all shipments to Russia	Materials	South Korea
Lindt-Sprungli	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	Switzerland
Little Caesar’s	suspend Russian franchise support	Communication Services	United States
Lladró	suspended service and shipment to Russia. No new requests	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
Logitech	suspend shipments to Russia	Financials	Switzerland
Louis Dreyfus	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	Netherlands
Lumen	cut networks to Russia	Communication Services	United States
LUSH	suspend online sales & supply to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
LVMH	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
M&G	phased divestment of Russian assets	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Maersk	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Denmark
Magna	suspend Russian plants	Consumer Discretionary	Canada
Magna Steyr	suspend deliveries to Russia		Austria
Mango	suspend direct operations in Russia		Spain
Mannheimer Swartling	suspend all operations	Utilities	Sweden
Manolo Blahnik	suspend sales to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Marks & Spencer	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Marvell	suspend all sales to Russia in compliance with sanctions		United States
Mastercard	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Mattel	suspend shipments into Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Mazda	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
McCain Foods	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	Canada
McCormick	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
McDonald’s	suspend direct operations/restaurants	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Meggit	cease all imports and exports with Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
Mercedes-Benz	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Germany
Meta	suspend Russian advertising	Communication Services	United States
Metsa	suspend operations at Russian mill		Finland
Metso Outotec	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Finland
Mettler Toledo	suspend all shipments to Russia	Health Care	United States
Michelin	suspended all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Micron	Suspend shipments to Russia according to sanctions		United States
Milk Hydrosan sp. z o.o.	suspended Russian contracts	Industrials	Poland
Mitsubishi Motors	suspended operations at Russian plant		Japan
Mobatime (Elekon)	stopped activity and remotly stopped clock on Russian Academy of Sciences	Consumer Discretionary	Czech Republic
Moncler	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Italy
MongoDB	suspend sales to Russia and Belarus		United States
Mothercare	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Motorola Solutions	suspend service orders to Russia		United States
Munich Re	not renew current contracts & suspend new business		Germany
MV Group	suspends all imports and orders, froze partner brands	Consumer Staples	Lithuania
MVRDV	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	Netherlands
Namecheap	stop offering products to Russia	Information Technology	United States
NCR	suspend sales to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Nemak	halt production in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Mexico
Neste Oyj	suspend purchases of Russian oil	Energy	Finland
NetApp	suspend business operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
New Development Bank	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	China
NHL	pause all partnerships in Russia	Financials	United States
Niantic Labs	products made unavailable in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Nike	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Nintendo	suspend all sales in Russia	Communication Services	Japan
Nissan	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Nozbe	cut off services for Russia and Belarus	Utilities	Poland
Nutanix	pause all sales and support to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Nvidia	suspend all sales in Russia	Information Technology	United States
NXP Semiconductors	suspend all shipments to and business with Russia	Information Technology	Netherlands
Olvi	stop exports to Russia	Consumer Staples	Finland
Oracle	suspend all operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Panasonic	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Papa John’s	suspend support for all Russian franchises	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Paramount	pause new content releases to Russia	Communication Services	United States
Payoneer	close Russian accounts	Information Technology	United States
Paypal	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Peak Design	shut down sales to Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Pernod-Ricard	suspended all operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	France
Pivovary Staropramen	suspended beer exports	Consumer Staples	Czech Republic
Plzeňský Prazdroj	suspend sales to Russia	Consumer Staples	Czech Republic
Polaris	suspend exports to Russia		United States
Ponsse PLC	discontinue all operations in Russia	Industrials	Finland
Porsche	end shipments of new cars; dealerships running and warranty obligations honored	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Prada	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Italy
Preem AB	suspend purchases of Russian oil	Energy	Sweden
Puma	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
PVH	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
QS	cease activity with Russian customers & cease promotion of Russian universities		United Kingdom
Qualcomm	suspend shipments to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Rabobank	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	Netherlands
Rakovnický Pivovar	stopped exports and withdrew some products for sale in Russia	Consumer Staples	Czech Republic
Ralph Lauren	pause operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Raytheon	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Reima	suspend all sales into Russia		Finland
Remitly Global	stop accepting new users in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Renault	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	France
Richemont	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Switzerland
Ricoh	suspend shipments to Russia	Information Technology	Japan
Roca	closure of plants	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
Rockwell Automation	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Rolls Royce	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
Rovio	remove games from app stores in Russia	Utilities	Finland
Royal Society of Chemistry	pause activities with Russian institutions		United Kingdom
Safran	stop all activities in Russia	Industrials	France
Samsonite International	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Luxembourg
Samsung	suspend all shipments to Russia	Information Technology	South Korea
Sandvik	suspend all operations in Russia	Industrials	Sweden
SAP	stop all sales to Russia and shut down cloud operations	Information Technology	Germany
Scandinavian Tobacco	suspend most operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	Denmark
Scania	suspend all sales in Russia	Industrials	Sweden
Schwarz Group	stop sales of Russian products in stores		Germany
SKF	pause exports to Russia and stop production in Russia	Industrials	Sweden
Skytrax	suspend all audit and rating analysis		United Kingdom
Snap	suspend all sales to Russia	Communication Services	United States
SonoSim	suspend distributor relationship in Russia	Health Care	United States
Sony	pause release of new films in Russia, suspending console and game sales in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
SSAB	shipments and sales to Russia discontinued		Sweden
Starbucks	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Stellantis	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Netherlands
Stora Enso	stop all production and sales in Russia	Materials	Finland
Storytel	pause operations in Russia	Utilities	Sweden
Subaru	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Sumitomo Group	scaling back or suspending all Russian-related business		Japan
Supercell	remove games from app stores in Russia	Utilities	Finland
Swatch	suspend direct operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Switzerland
Sylvamo	suspend operations in Russia	Materials	United States
Systemair	suspend all sales to Russia		Sweden
T Machinery	Stopped cooperation	Industrials	Czech Republic
Tanin	goods are stopped	Consumer Discretionary	Slovenia
Tendam	suspend activity in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
The Navigator Company	suspend all marketing in Russia	Materials	Portugal
Thermo Fisher	suspend sales and manufacturing in Russia	Health Care	United States
TikTok	suspend operations in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Timken	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Tous	close shops and online store in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Spain
Toyota	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Japan
Trane Technologies	suspend shipments to Russia	Industrials	Ireland
Trelleborg Group	suspended deliveries and sales to Russia	Industrials	Sweden
Trimble	suspend all sales in Russia	Information Technology	United States
TSMC	suspend all shipments to Russia	Information Technology	Taiwan
TTC Holding	suspended activities	Real Estate	Czech Republic
Twin Disc	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	United States
Twitter	suspend certain operations in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Ubisoft	suspend new sales to Russia	Utilities	France
UiPath	suspend sales in Russia		United States
UL	stop all work in Russia and Belarus		United States
Under Armour	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Uniqlo/Fast Retailing	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Universal	suspend operations in Russia	Health Care	United States
UPM	temporarily suspend operations and sales in Russia		Finland
UPS	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	United States
Valero Energy	suspend purchases of Russian oil	Energy	United States
Vičiūnai	suspended all investments, operations, productions, and trade	Consumer Staples	Lithuania
Vietnam Airlines	suspend flights to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Vietnam
Visa	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Viva	suspend purchases of Russian oil	Energy	Australia
VMWare	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Volkswagen	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Volvo	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Sweden
WarnerMedia	pause new content releases	Communication Services	United States
WEKA	suspend business and concrete deals with Russia	Information Technology	United States
Western Union	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
WeTransfer	suspend all services in Russia	Financials	United States
William Grant & Sons	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Wise PLC	suspend Russian partnerships	Information Technology	United Kingdom
Wizz Air	Air flights to/from Russia are temporarily suspended	Industrials	Hungary
Xerox	suspend shipments to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Yara	suspend all imports from Russia		Norway
YKK Group	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	Japan
Yokohama	halt production in Russia	Industrials	Japan
Zegna Group	suspended all shipments to and production for Russia partners		Italy
Zetor	suspend all cooperation with Russia	Industrials	Czech Republic
ZHA	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
Zynga	suspend all installations, monetization and marketing support	Utilities	United States

Withdrawal

Clean Break – Surgical Removal, Resection (288 Companies) (Grade: A)

Companies totally halting Russian engagements or completely exiting Russia…

Name	Action	Industry	Country
Accenture	exiting Russia completely	Information Technology	Ireland
Accountor	withdrawal from Russia	Information Technology	Finland
Acronis	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	Switzerland
Activision Blizzard	suspend all sales in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Adamed	halted sales to Russia	Health Care	Poland
Adenza	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
AECOM	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
AerCap	cease lending to Russians	Industrials	Ireland
Air Malta	suspend all flights to and from Russia	Industrials	Malta
Air Products	full divestiture from Russia	Materials	United States
AirBaltic	leave Russian market until further notice	Consumer Discretionary	Latvia
Airbnb	suspend bookings in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Akvelon	close offices in Moscow	Information Technology	United States
Alaska Airlines	suspend Russian partnerships	Industrials	United States
Alcoa	suspend all business with Russia	Materials	United States
Aldi	remove products from Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
Allegro	bans Russian & Belarussian products	Consumer Discretionary	Poland
Allen & Overy	wind down Russian operations	Industrials	United Kingdom
AMD	suspend all sales to Russia	Information Technology	United States
American Airlines	no flying over Russian airspace/suspension of Russian partnerships	Industrials	United States
Amica	suspended Russian exports	Consumer Discretionary	Poland
ArcelorMittal	removed all Russian materials from supply chain	Materials	Luxembourg
Arendt & Medernach	close Russian office and suspend select Russian client engagements	Industrials	Luxembourg
Arla	suspends all operations	Consumer Staples	Denmark
Asda	remove products from Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Asos	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Assicurazioni Generali	exit Russia completely	Financials	Italy
Atos	exit from Russia	Information Technology	France
Atria	exit business in Russia	Consumer Staples	Finland
Authentic Brands Group – Reebok	successfully completed suspension of all operations	Industrials	United States
Autodesk	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Avantor	discontinue all sales into Russia, direct and indirect		United States
Avery Dennison	exit Russian operations	Materials	United States
Avid	suspend all sales to Russia	Information Technology	United States
Bain	suspend consulting for all Russian businesses	Financials	United States
Baker Botts	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Baker McKenzie	suspend services for all Kremlin entities only	Industrials	United States
Baker Tilly	gradual wind down of operations in Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
Bakoma	withdrew from Russia completely prior to aggression	Consumer Staples	Poland
Ball Corporation	leave Russia completely	Materials	United States
Banco Santander SA	no presence in Russia; exposure to Ukrainian and Russian assets negligible	Financials	Poland
BBDO	exit Russian operations	Communication Services	United States
BCG	suspend all consulting in Russia	Industrials	United States
Bestseller	stop all sales to Russia		Denmark
BlackRock	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	United States
Bolt	suspend Russian partnerships	Information Technology	Estonia
Bonava	close operations in Russia		Sweden
Boohoo Group	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Booking	suspend bookings in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Bose	suspend all operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
BP	suspend operations/divest from 20% Rosneft stake	Energy	United Kingdom
British American Tobacco	exit Russian operations	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Brown-Forman	suspend commercial operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	United States
Bryan Cave	exit Russian operations	Industrials	United States
Bumble	suspend operations in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Cargolux	suspend all shipments into and through Russia	Industrials	Luxembourg
Carlsberg	exit Russia completely	Consumer Staples	Denmark
Carnival	discontinue Russia itineraries	Consumer Discretionary	United States
CD Projekt	suspends sales of products in Russia & Belarus	Communication Services	Poland
Centrica	exit gas supply partnership with Gazprom	Utilities	United Kingdom
Ceratizit	stop all deliveries to Russia and Belarus	Industrials	Luxembourg
Cersanit	put up its Russian business for sale		Poland
Ciech	suspended Russian exports	Materials	Poland
Clarivate	exit Russian operations	Industrials	United Kingdom
Clifford Chance	suspend certain Russian relationships	Industrials	United Kingdom
Colliers	Discontinued business in Russia	Real Estate	Canada
Comarch	halts orders from Russia & Belarus	Information Technology	Poland
Compass Group	permanently exit Russian market	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Coop	fully divest Russian operations Transgourmet via management buyout	Financials	Switzerland
Coupa	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Coursera	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
CRH	withdrawal from Russia	Materials	Ireland
Cummins	exit Russian operations	Industrials	United States
Currency.com	halting operations for residents of Russian	Financials	United Kingdom
Cushman & Wakefield	close office in Russia; transfer to local partner	Real Estate	United States
Cyfrowy Polsat	removing Russian TV channels from the offer	Communication Services	Poland
Daimler	suspending all business in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Danfoss	exit Russia completely		Denmark
DB Schenker	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Germany
DDB	exit Russian operations	Industrials	United States
Dechert	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Deezer	suspend operations in Russia	Communication Services	France
Deichmann	stop operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Deloitte	leaving Russia completely	Industrials	United States
Delta Air Lines	suspend agreement with Aeroflot	Industrials	United States
Demant	stop all sales to Russia		Denmark
Dentons	exit Russian operations	Industrials	Switzerland
Dentsu International	divest joint venture/leave Russia	Communication Services	United Kingdom
Deutsche Telekom	close Russian business	Communication Services	Germany
Dino Polska	removed Russian products	Consumer Staples	Poland
DLA Piper	suspend certain operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Dr. Oetker	stops sales and production in Russia; transferred ownership of production facilities	Consumer Staples	Germany
DXC Technology	leaving Russia completely	Information Technology	United States
EarthDaily Analytics	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
eBay	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
edX	withdraw from all Russian partnerships		United States
Electronic Arts	suspend all operations in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Elisa Esports	ban Russian teams from participating in tournaments	Utilities	Finland
ENEOS	stop purchases of Russian crude		Japan
Eni	divest Russian pipeline	Energy	Italy
EPAM	discontinue servicing Russian customers	Information Technology	United States
Equinor	exit joint ventures in Russia	Energy	Norway
Esri	curtailing sales to Russia	Information Technology	United Kingdom
Etsy	deactivate all listings from Russian sellers	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Eurovision	ban on all Russian competition	Financials	United Kingdom
Eversheds Sutherland	close Russia office	Industrials	United Kingdom
Expedia	suspend bookings in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Exxon	exit Rosneft partnership	Energy	United States
EY	leaving Russia completely	Industrials	United States
Famur	suspended Russian exports	Industrials	Poland
Farfetch	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Fazer	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	Finland
Ferragamo	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Italy
FICO	exiting all work in Russia	Information Technology	United States
FIFA	ban Russian athletes from competing	Industrials	Switzerland
Fiskars	withdraw completely from the Russian market	Consumer Discretionary	Finnland
Fitch	suspend operations in Russia	Financials	United States
FMC Corporation	discontinue all business and operations	Materials	United States
Fonterra	exit its businesses in Russia.	Consumer Staples	New Zealand
Formula One	suspend all operations in Russia	Communication Services	United Kingdom
Fortinet	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Freshfields	closing business in Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
G2A	block marketplace for Russian users	Communication Services	Netherlands
Geodis	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	France
Global Foundries	suspend all shipments to Russia	Information Technology	United States
GoDaddy	discontinue all Russian services	Information Technology	United States
Gowling	leave Russia	Utilities	Canada
Grainpro	suspend all operations in Russia	Materials	United States
Grammarly	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Grant Thornton	closing business in Russia	Industrials	United States
Grohe	cease all activities with Russia		Germany
Grupa Azoty	stopped exporting its products to Russia or Belarus	Materials	Poland
Haniel	unwind all Russian business	Materials	Germany
Heidrick & Struggles	ceased all operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Heineken	exit Russia completely	Consumer Staples	Netherlands
Hempel	exit Russia	Industrials	Denmark
Herbert Smith Freehills	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	Australia
Hogan Lovells	exit Russian operations	Industrials	United Kingdom
Holcim	exit Russian market completely	Materials	Switzerland
Huhtamaki	divest Russian operations		Finland
Infosys	shutting down operations in Russia		India
InPost	stop purchasing services/goods from Russian & Belorussian companies	Industrials	Poland
Intercontinental Exchange	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	United States
International Boxing Federation	ban on all Russian competition	Industrials	France
International Cat Federation	ban Russian cats from competitions	Industrials	Canada
International Cycling Union	ban on all Russian competition		United States
International Ice Hockey Federation	ban on all Russian competition		Switzerland
International Skating Union	ban on all Russian competition		Switzerland
International Tennis Federation	suspend Russian partnerships	Industrials	United Kingdom
International Weightlifting Federation	ban on all Russian competition		Switzerland
Interpublic Group	exit Russian operations	Communication Services	United States
IOC	ban Russian athletes from competing		Switzerland
ISS	divestment of all Russian business by end of year		Denmark
J Sainsbury	remove products from Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Jabil	closed its site in Russia		United States
Jamie Oliver	exit franchise agreement	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Jan de Nul	close rep office and withdraw ships	Industrials	Luxembourg
JetBrains	suspend all activity indefinitely	Information Technology	Czech Republic
JLL	Separated operations in Russia.	Real Estate	United States
JYSK	suspend operations in Russia	Financials	Denmark
Kalnapilis-Taurus	termination of export ties and production in Russian Market		Lithuania
Kearney	suspend work with Russian clients	Industrials	United States
Kesko	stop sales to Russia and imports from Russia		Finland
Kiilto	seeking exit from Russian business		Finland
Kingspan	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	Ireland
KLP	exit all investment holdings in Russia		Norway
Knorr-Bremse	stop shipments to Russia; end JVs	Industrials	Germany
Konecranes	stop all orders from Russia		Finland
Korean Air Lines	no flying over Russian airspace until the end of April	Industrials	South Korea
KPMG	leaving Russia completely	Industrials	United States
Krispy Kreme	winding down business in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Krombacher	stopped exports to Russia	Consumer Staples	Germany
Kuehne + Nagel AG	suspend all shipments to Russia	Industrials	Switzerland
Latham & Watkins	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Lincoln Electric	ceased all operations	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Linklaters	suspend operations in Russia, with entities connected to the Russian state	Consumer Discretionary	United Kingdom
Live Nation Entertainment	suspend all operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
London Stock Exchange Group	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
LPP	left Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Poland
Lufthansa	suspended flights and ended Russian aircraft maintenance	Industrials	Germany
Marsh McLennan	exit operations in Russia	Financials	United States
McKinsey	suspend all consulting in Russia	Industrials	United States
Mitsubishi Electric	stop sales to Russia		Japan
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group	close operations in Russia		Japan
Monroe Energy	suspend partnerships with Russia	Energy	United States
Moody’s	suspend operations within Russia	Financials	United States
Morgan Advanced Materials	suspend all operations in Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
Morgan Lewis	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Morrisons	remove products from Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
MSC	temporary suspension of all shipments to Russia	Financials	United States
MSCI	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	United States
Nasdaq	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	United States
Naspers	separate from Avito and fully exit Russia	Consumer Discretionary	South Africa
NCAB Group AB	Sold assets and ceased operations in Russia	Industrials	Sweden
Netflix	suspend operations in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Netscout	suspend Russian operations	Information Technology	United States
Nokia	pulling out of Russia completely	Information Technology	Finland
Norton Rose Fulbright	exit from Russia	Industrials	United Kingdom
Norwegian Cruise Lines	discontinue Russian itineraries	Consumer Discretionary	United States
OBI	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Oceania Cruises	discontinue Russian itineraries	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Omnicom Group, Inc.	exit Russian operations	Communication Services	United States
Omnicom Media Group	exit Russian operations	Communication Services	United States
OneWeb	suspend use of Russian airspace	Communication Services	United States
Orkla	exit Russian operations	Consumer Staples	Norway
Orlen Lietuva	stopped Russian oil imports	Energy	Poland
Pandora	stop all sourcing from Russia		Denmark
Par Pacific	suspend partnerships with Russia	Energy	United States
Parker Hannifin	closed our office and warehouse facility in Moscow and no longer do business in this country		United States
Paulig	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Staples	Finland
Pekao SA	transactions in Russian ruble suspended	Financials	Poland
PKO BP	suspends transactions with Russian banks transactions in Russian ruble suspended	Financials	Poland
Playmobil	stop all sales to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Prio	ceased purchase of any products from Russian or directly related companies	Energy	Portugal
Prosus	divest from local subsidiary		Netherlands
Publicis Groupe	cede ownership to local affiliates	Communication Services	France
PwC	leaving Russia completely	Industrials	United States
PZU SA	reduced position in Russian bonds to zero	Financials	Poland
Qantas Airlines	no longer flies over Russian territory		Australia
R&A	ban on all Russian competition	Industrials	United States
Radio Free Europe	suspend operations in Russia	Communication Services	Czech Republic
Reckitt Benckiser Group	begins a process aimed at transferring ownership of its Russia business	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Regent Seven Seas Cruises	discontinue Russian itineraries	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Rio Tinto	terminate all commercial relationships with Russia		Australia
Roku	remove Kremlin-linked propaganda and ads	Communication Services	United States
Rolex	suspend exports to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Switzerland
S Group	selling off all businesses in Russia		Finland
S Group (Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta)	close all operations operations	Consumer Staples	Finland
S&P	curtail Russian access to capital markets		United States
Salesforce	suspend operations in Russia	Information Technology	United States
Savills	end partnerships in Russia	Real Estate	United Kingdom
Shell	suspend operations in Russia	Energy	United Kingdom
Sidley Austin	end all Russian relationships	Industrials	United States
Signet Jewelers	suspend operations in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	United States
SKF	end sales and production in Russia		Sweden
Skoda	halted production and stopped exports	Consumer Discretionary	Czech Republic
SMAY	stopped all Russian business		Poland
Societe Generale	cessation of all activities in Russia	Financials	France
Sonos	ceased all sales to this market at the onset of the war and blocked Russian state radio	Consumer Discretionary	United States
Spotify	closed office and other restrictions	Communication Services	Sweden
Squire Patton Boggs	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Stanley Black & Decker	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
State Street	curtail Russian access to capital markets	Financials	United States
Stora Enso	stopped all production and sales	Materials	Finland
Storebrand	divest all Russian holdings		Norway
Strabag	winding down operations in Russia; terminating shareholder syndicate agreements with Deripaska		Austria
Swarovski	suspend all sales in Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Liechtenstein
Sweco	stop all projects in Russia		Sweden
Take-Two Interactive	suspend all sales in Russia	Communication Services	United States
Teknotherm Marine HVAC sp. z o.o.	complete withdrawal from Russia		Poland
Teradata	stopped all business in Russia	Information Technology	United States
TJ Maxx	divest Familia subsidiary	Consumer Discretionary	United States
TripAdvisor	remove Kremlin-linked propaganda and ads	Communication Services	United States
TUI	end brand-sharing agreement; had already exited	Consumer Discretionary	Germany
Uber	divest from partnership with Yandex	Industrials	United States
UEFA	ban Russian athletes from competing	Industrials	Switzerland
United Airlines	no flying over Russian airspace	Industrials	United States
United Internet Group	suspend all Russian contracts	Industrials	Germany
Upwork	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Valio	close business operation in Russia	Consumer Staples	Finland
Vanguard	suspend operations in Russia	Financials	United States
Velux	permanently close operations in Russia and Belarus		Denmark
Vinmonopolet	stop sales of all Russian wine, spirits and strong beers in Norway		Norway
Vodafone	suspend partner agreement with MTS		United Kingdom
Volfas Engelman	suspend investment and withdraw from Russian market	Consumer Staples	Lithuania
Waitrose	remove products from Russia	Consumer Staples	United Kingdom
Wargaming	close operations; transfer of some business		Belarus
Waters Corporation	suspend all sales and services into Russia	Health Care	United States
WeWork	planning divestment of Russian operations	Real Estate	United States
Wex Inc.	ending relationship with Lukoil and subsidiaries	Information Technology	United States
White & Case	wind down Russian operations	Industrials	United States
Wielton	suspended Russian exports	Industrials	Poland
Willis Towers Watson	fully exit Russia and transfer ownership to local management	Financials	United Kingdom
Winston & Strawn	suspend operations in Russia	Industrials	United States
Women’s Tennis Association	suspend Russian partnerships	Communication Services	United States
World Athletics Council	ban on all Russian competition	Industrials	United States
World Boxing Association	ban on all Russian competition	Industrials	Panama
World Boxing Council	suspend Russia from title fights	Consumer Discretionary	Mexico
World Boxing Organization	ban on all Russian competition	Industrials	United States
World Federation of Exchanges	suspend all Russian members and affiliates		United Kingdom
World Rowing Federation	ban on all Russian competition	Industrials	United States
World Rugby Union	ban on all Russian competition	Industrials	Ireland
Woseba	suspends deliveries to Russia	Industrials	Poland
WPP PLC	suspend all operations in Russia	Communication Services	United Kingdom
WWE	suspend all operations in Russia	Communication Services	United States
YIT	exits Russia projects		Finland
YOOX	suspend all shipments to Russia	Consumer Discretionary	Italy
Żabka	halts orders from Russia & Belarus	Consumer Staples	Poland

The Guardian

Russia warns US of repercussions if it sends more arms to Ukraine – reports

Julian Borger in Washington – April 15, 2022

Russia sent a formal warning to the US not to send more arms to Ukraine or it could face “unpredictable consequences”, it has been reported.

According to the Washington Post, Moscow sent a diplomatic note, a démarche, warning that US and Nato deliveries of the “most sensitive” weapons systems to Ukraine were “adding fuel” to the conflict there and could bring “unpredictable consequences”.

A spokesperson said the state department did not confirm any diplomatic correspondence as a matter of course, and made clear that the US would continue to send arms to Ukraine.

Related: Russia’s war in Ukraine: complete guide in maps, video and pictures

“What we can confirm is that, along with allies and partners, we are providing Ukraine with billions of dollars worth of security assistance, which our Ukrainian partners are using to extraordinary effect to defend their country against Russia’s unprovoked aggression and horrific acts of violence,” the spokesperson said.

The Russian embassy in Ukraine did not respond to a request for comment.

The US is preparing to send the latest $800m (£610m) tranche of military aid to Ukraine, bringing to $2.6bn the total since the start of the war. The Biden administration has also made clear that it was sending increasingly heavy and sophisticated equipment, including helicopters, aerial and marine drones, and long-range 155mm howitzers, while training Ukrainian soldiers in their use.

The US is also sending additional anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles of the sort that have contributed to the war effort so far in Ukraine. The Ukrainians claim to have sunk the Russian Black Sea fleet flagship Moskva on Thursday using Ukrainian-developed Neptune missiles. The UK has promised to send more anti-ship missiles to replenish stockpiles. Military experts believe that Ukraine’s anti-ship missile systems are what has deterred Russia up to now from attempting an amphibious landing around Odesa.

Related: German chancellor ‘stalling on heavy weaponry to Ukraine’

It is unclear whether Moscow has sent similar diplomatic notes to European countries. On Thursday, the German vice-chancellor, Robert Habeck, appeared to back down on his demands earlier in the week for the Ukrainian army to be provided with what it needed as soon as possible.

Habeck cited concerns about Russian reprisals. “Heavy weapons are synonymous with tanks, and all Nato countries have so far ruled this out to not become targets themselves,” he told Politico.

Nevertheless, the Czech Republic has already sent T-72 tanks and tracked armoured personnel carriers while the US is sending helicopters and howitzers.

• The main picture on this article was changed on 16 April 2022. An earlier photo was of a type of helicopter the US is not sending to Ukraine.

Business Insider

Ukrainian police say it appears many of the bodies discovered near Kyiv are civilians that were ‘simply executed’

Natalie Musumeci – April 15, 2022

• Ukrainian police said the bodies of more than 900 civilians have been found in the areas outside capital of Kyiv, the Associated Press reported.
• Kyiv regional police chief Andriy Nebytov it appears that the majority of them were “simply executed.”
• The harrowing discovery was made after Russian forces withdrew from the area around Kyiv.

Ukrainian police said on Friday that the bodies of more than 900 civilians have been found in the areas outside Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv — and that it appears many of them were “simply executed” by Russian troops.

Kyiv regional police chief Andriy Nebytov said that the bodies were discovered strewn in the streets in the region surrounding the capital or in temporary burial plots, the Associated Press reported.

Citing police data, Nebytov said that 95% of the slain civilians died from gunshot wounds, according to the news outlet.

“We understand that under the [Russian] occupation, people were simply executed in the streets,” Nebytov said, adding that the death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are found daily under debris and in mass graves, according to the AP.

The harrowing discovery was made after Russian forces withdrew from the area around Kyiv after several weeks of war with the eastern European country in which Russian troops failed to capture the capital.

Nebytov said more than 350 bodies were found in the Ukrainian town of Bucha alone, the AP reported.

Additionally, Nebytov said that utility workers in Bucha buried bodies in the Kyiv suburb when it was under Russian control and said Russian troops were “tracking down” people with pro-Ukrainian views, according to the AP.

Earlier this month, gruesome scenes of dead civilians emerged out of Bucha, sparking international outrage.

Business Insider

Ukraine says Russia is failing to recruit new troops because they know they’ll become ‘cannon fodder’

Joshua Zitser – April 15, 2022

• Russia failed to mobilize 26,000 reservists to fight in the Donbas, Ukraine’s defense ministry said.
• That’s because potential Russian recruits were afraid of becoming “cannon fodder,” the ministry said.
• Russia has lost multiple high-ranking officers in the face of surprisingly strong Ukrainian resistance.

Russia is failing to recruit new troops because potential conscripts are too afraid of dying in battle, Ukraine’s defense ministry told a Friday press briefing, citing military intelligence.

Russia had planned to mobilize 26,000 reservists to fight in the Donbas, but this effort ultimately failed because Russians were avoiding being conscripted, defense ministry spokesman Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk told the briefing.

“Males aged 18 to 65 make every attempt to avoid mobilization because they don’t want to become cannon fodder for the occupier’s army,” Motuzyanyk said.

Ukraine’s defense ministry claims it has killed about 20,000 soldiers and officers of the Russian army. This figure has not been independently verified.

Motuzyanyk told reporters that potential recruits had been promised that their duties would include “controlling occupied territories, guarding roads and military facilities, and improving the defense positions.”

The reality, he said, is they have been forced into battle to replace those killed in combat.

“As practical experience shows, such mobilized people are the first priority reserve to replenish losses of those units who are directly engaged in combat action against Ukraine,” Motuzyanyk said.

Multiple reports in recent weeks have described low morale among Russian forces in Ukraine. The BBC reported earlier this week that Russia’s losses in Ukraine included elite troops that take years and millions of dollars to train.

Mikhail Benyash, a lawyer representing Russian national guardsmen who were fired for refusing to go to Ukraine, told the Financial Times that hundreds of people had gotten in touch with him looking for advice on avoiding the war.

Business Insider

Ukraine is using facial recognition to ID dead Russian soldiers and send photos of corpses home to their moms: report

Laura Italiano – April 15, 2022

• Ukraine is sending photos of dead Russian soldiers home to their families, The Washington Post reports.
• Officials hope that the gruesome images will turn everyday Russians against the war.
• The corpses are being ID’d using facial recognition technology donated to Ukraine by Clearview AI.

Ukraine is using facial recognition software in a gruesome campaign to turn Russia’s mothers against the war, The Washington Post reported Friday.

The free software, donated by the controversial US company Clearview AI, is being used to scan and identify the faces of Russian soldiers who died on Ukraine soil.

Images of the Russian soldiers’ corpses are then sent back to their families in Russia, The Post reported.

The hope is that the grim reality of battlefield deaths will shock everyday Russians into turning against the war.

Both Ukraine and Russia have weaponized facial recognition in the ongoing war. Russia is using the technology to identify and arrest anti-war activists. Ukraine is using it identify both its own dead and those of the enemy.

Nearly 9,000 facial recognition searches have so far been run on dead or captured Russian soldiers, The Post reported.

Russian families have been sent images relating to 582 dead soldiers, volunteer hackers who work with the Ukraine government told The Post.

Clearview has been criticized for its scraping of social media images and its use by US law enforcement. Ukraine’s free access to the software’s database of 2 million images from Russian social media is demonstrating a new use of the technology as anti-war propaganda.

The strategy could backfire, some warned.

“Is it actually working?” London-based surveillance researcher Stephanie Hare told The Post. “Or is it making [Russians] say: ‘Look at these lawless, cruel Ukrainians, doing this to our boys?'”

The Hill

Russian leadership was highly unpopular before Ukraine invasion: Gallup

Caroline Vakil – April 15, 2022

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, its leadership was considered highly unpopular globally, according to an analysis of Gallup surveys conducted between April 2021 and January 2022 released on Friday.

In 2021, Russian leadership had a global median approval of 33 percent compared to its global median disapproval rating of 39 percent, according to the Gallup analysis.

Gallup notes that the global median approval rating for Russian leadership was still higher than where it stood in 2014, when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, where the rating sat at 22 percent. Russian leadership had a global median disapproval rating of 36 percent during that time.

Looking specifically at global median ratings in 2021, Europe had the highest median disapproval rating of 62 percent, quickly followed by NATO countries surveyed, which sat at 57 percent.

In contrast, Africa had the highest median approval rating for Russian leadership at 42 percent, followed by the Americas at 36 percent.

However, Gallup noted that while large percentages of adults in the U.S. (60 percent), China (52 percent) and Germany (49 percent) approved of Russia’s leadership, African adults had a slightly lower approval rating, at 42 percent, in 2021.

Further breaking down the specific countries who rated Russia’s leadership, Sweden, Lithuania, Denmark and Egypt gave Russian leadership its lowest marks in 2021 — at 6 percent, 8 percent, 9 percent and 10 percent, respectively.

Among the countries who gave Russian leadership high marks were Mali (84 percent), Kyrgyzstan (76 percent), Mongolia (73 percent) and Cote d’Ivoire (71 percent).

The analysis of Gallup survey results comes amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, which has been widely condemned by the international community.

The analysis from Gallup looked at Gallup surveys conducted between April 2021 and January 2022 and included 116 countries and territories.

The margin of sampling error ranged between plus or minus 2.8 percentage points to plus or minus 5 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level, for results based on the total sample of national adults.

Politico

Targeting Putin’s Holy Man

Michael Schaffer – April 15, 2022

Like a lot of insiders associated with Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev has faced calls for international ostracism in the weeks since the invasion of Ukraine. It’s no surprise why: He’s used his powerful Moscow perch to endorse the Kremlin’s attack on its neighbor, cheering on the troops and casting their mission as part of a civilizational battle against western decadence.

But unlike the owner of a Russian airline or retail behemoth or energy concern, he’s not the sort of figure consumers can simply boycott or suppliers can just cut off. Gundyayev — formal name: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia — is the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. Which makes the process of kicking him out of polite society a bit trickier, and explains why that process at least partially runs through a small, iconoclastic Washington think tank.

The bill of complaints against Patriarch Kirill is long and ugly. Since taking over Russian orthodoxy’s highest job in 2009, he’s rearranged the church on more authoritarian lines, cemented a close alliance with Putin, and lent ecclesiastical legitimacy to the quasi-mystical, hyper-nationalist Russkiy Mir theory that Putin has used to dismiss the existence of Ukraine as a separate country.

Since the war began, it’s been uglier still. He delivered a sermon calling on Russians to rally around the authorities and “repel enemies both external and internal.” In another, he likened the battle to the struggle between the church and the antichrist. He’s said the war for “Holy Russia” has “metaphysical significance,” the conquest of Ukraine a matter of eternal salvation. For good measure, he’s also said that part of what the Russian forces are combating is the horrific possibility of gay pride parades. Plenty of oligarchs have been canceled for less.

The problem with targeting religious leaders is that they don’t simply have yachts the police can seize or air-overflight rights the government can revoke. In the United States, where the Orthodox Church in America is formally separate from Moscow (and critical of the war), there aren’t even many places where activists could protest a Kirill-aligned cleric’s sermon. Within Russia itself, a group of Orthodox priests signed a letter opposing the invasion. Outside Russia, it’s largely been other religious leaders who have taken the Patriarch to task.

And in the U.S., an evangelical minister named Rob Schenck, who leads a small D.C.-based institute named after the martyred anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, has championed another venue to exhibit displeasure: He has helped organize a campaign to get the Russian Orthodox Church kicked out of the World Council of Churches, the Geneva-based international organization founded after World War II to promote ecumenical understanding.

“Instead of the Patriarch challenging Putin and calling him to account, he is essentially enabling him and offering him a moral imprimatur for the invasion of Ukraine,” says Schenck, an administrative bishop of the Methodist Evangelical Church and a one-time conservative activist who later wrote a memoir of his journey into and out of the religious right. “He has styled it as a religious war of sorts, the danger of western liberalism and its encroachment on Orthodox culture. He’s made it a culture war as much as a religious crusade.”

Working with allies overseas, Schenck has been circulating letters, lobbying colleagues and otherwise trying to wrangle the array of denominations that make up the world council. Prelates including a former Archbishop of Canterbury have embraced the idea, and last week the organization’s general secretary predicted it would be on the agenda for the next gathering. “What Rob and so many people from around the world are calling for, for the first time in Christian history as far as I can tell, is an ecumenical response to war,” says Michael Hanegan, an Oklahoma theologian and Bonhoeffer fellow who’s been working with Schenck.

But if losing McDonald’s or getting kicked off of SWIFT wasn’t going to deter Russia, would anyone really care about their national church being booted from a kumbaya society of international religious yakkers — even one that fashions itself as a kind of United Nations of churches?

Schenck says there’s some precedent (South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church quit amidst threats expulsion for defending Apartheid) but also sees it as a matter of principle: “It violates the very message, ministry and model of Christ himself. He rebuked his disciples when they took up the sword of violence.”

At any rate, it would also be another small instance of decoupling between Russia and the broader international world. In this case, the relationship being severed is one that actually predates the end of the Cold War, going back to 1961. At the time, the Soviet Union was officially atheist, but authorities had found the church could occasionally be useful in maintaining support. Top clerics tended to have the blessing, so to speak, of the Kremlin — and the security services. The relationship ran both ways. But the church was still welcome in the WCC, where it reliably articulated Soviet positions. In 1971, then-Archimandrite Kirill became Moscow’s representative.

Religious politics, in fact, have factored into the Ukraine situation in a number of ways, most of which haven’t gotten a lot of attention in the U.S. In 2018, Patriarch Kirill was enraged after Ukraine’s Orthodox Church, up to then located under Moscow on the org chart, was made autocephalous, or able to govern itself, just like the churches in a number of other independent countries. The decision spurred a major rupture in relations between the Russian church and the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch, traditionally the leading figure in Eastern Orthodoxy. (The Orthodox Church in America has been officially autocephalous since 1970; its official statement on the Ukraine invasion calls it a “war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation.”)

Washington has never been a huge hub of interreligious statecraft, but Schenck, 63, says it’s the natural place for an outfit dedicated to promoting “morally courageous” leaders. “Bonhoeffer’s mission was to persuade government actors as much as anyone else to do what is right and good and ethical,” he says. “I’ve been 30 years in Washington and I know the lay of the land. I know the actors and players. So many denominations have their government relations offices here.”

Schenck’s earlier years in the city featured rather different sorts of headlines: A onetime Operation Rescue adviser, he was once questioned by the Secret Service after confronting former President Bill Clinton over abortion at a Christmas Eve service at the National Cathedral. He also wrote a treatise connecting the Second Amendment with the Ten Commandments. But he later experienced a second evangelical conversion and now supports gun control and Roe v. Wade. (Gun violence prevention is one of the Bonhoeffer Institute’s subject areas.)

For the record, Schenck says his real goal is to see Patriarch Kirill grow and change, too. “As Christians we believe in repentance,” he says. “We believe in making amends for one’s misdeeds, and redemption. It doesn’t have to be a permanent expulsion.”

Yahoo! News

Russian war disinformation — from the Bucha massacre to the sinking of the Moskva battleship — keeps growing

Zach Dorfman, National Security Correspondent – April 15, 2022

From the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and throughout the conflict, Moscow has pursued a strategy of aggressive public dissembling, prevarication and disinformation aimed at creating an alternative reality to explain how events have unfolded on the ground.

In Russia itself, the rules for even talking about Ukraine have become Orwellian, with citizens now facing lengthy potential prison sentences for simply stating that their country is at war, let alone expressing opposition to it. (The Kremlin-approved term for the conflict is “special military operation,” not war.)

While Ukraine has also focused on using social media to showcase its military victories in the conflict and to spread the hortatory powers of its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the information war fought by Kyiv has been largely reflective of that which can actually be documented.

In contrast, Russian state media and top Russian officials have repeatedly propagated an entirely false reality in which Moscow, not Kyiv, is faced with an existential military threat; where Ukrainians, not Russians, are committing horrific war crimes against Ukrainian civilians; where Ukraine is run by neo-Nazis; and where Russia’s war aims are proceeding entirely according to plan.

Here are some of the most flagrant falsehoods advanced by Moscow about Russia’s attack on Ukraine:

The massive buildup of troops on Ukraine’s border preceding the invasion was for ‘training exercises’

Beginning last summer, a spike in Russian military personnel and equipment amassing on Ukraine’s border set off alarm bells in Western capitals. Russia repeatedly and strenuously denied that the buildup was for anything other than routine military exercises. Moscow even continued denying its aim to invade Ukraine after troops it had sent to Belarus for joint military drills did not return to Russia after the drills’ conclusion.

As roughly 200,000 Russian troops swelled on Ukraine’s northern, eastern and southern borders, and an invasion appeared imminent, Russian officials called U.S. warnings about an attack “absurd” and “hysterical” just a few short weeks before Moscow’s aggression sparked the biggest land war in Europe since World War II.

Russia’s invasion is operating on schedule and according to plan

Moscow has repeatedly claimed that its “special military operation” in Ukraine is proceeding as planned. But this is demonstrably false. Russia’s original plan was to make a lightning strike on the capital, Kyiv, capture or kill Ukrainian leadership and force Ukrainian legislators to vote in a pro-Russia puppet government.

But that plan disintegrated amid fierce Ukrainian resistance, including a critical victory at an airport near Kyiv that foiled Russian troops from establishing a beachhead near the capital. Buoyed by these early victories, Ukrainians have managed to beat back Russia’s assault on Kyiv and other major cities such as Kharkiv, preventing Moscow’s forces, so far, from taking those major population centers.

Further undercutting the claim that the war is proceeding to plan, up to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far, according to NATO estimates, including over half a dozen generals. Ukraine has also claimed responsibility, via rocket attack, for sinking Russia’s Moskva cruiser, the flagship vessel of Russia’s Black Sea fleet and the largest military ship sunk since World War II. (Russia has said the vessel sank because of a storm after catching fire.)

Russia, having pulled its troops back entirely from Kyiv and its environs, has refocused its assault on Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Moscow now claims that carving that region out of Ukraine to create an independent statelet — in reality a Russia puppet regime — was always its primary war aim. But this is a wholesale rewriting of very recent history in which Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that the central goal was the “de-Nazification” of the whole of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government is run by neo-Nazis

Putin’s attempts to link Ukraine with Nazism have also proved a stretch. Russia has claimed that the Ukrainian government is an outlaw state run by neo-Nazi extremists. In fact, Zelensky is Jewish and won election in 2019 as a moderate. And though Ukraine has struggled with corruption, its government is squarely mainstream in nature — and, in fact, far less right-wing than some European states like Hungary.

Russia’s reference to “neo-Nazis” seems to spring from the activities of the Azov Battalian, a Ukrainian militant group with neo-fascist leanings that was integrated into Ukraine’s national guard in 2014. But Azov affiliates make up a tiny percentage of Ukraine’s total military forces, and Azov’s own leadership has sought to distance the organization from its more overtly neo-fascist past.

Moreover, Russia’s purported “de-Nazification” objectives ring particularly hollow since Russia has employed its own neo-fascist paramilitary operatives to fight in Ukraine, including the Wagner Group, which is closely connected to the Russian government, and the Russian Imperial Movement, which the U.S. designated a terrorist group in 2020.

The massacre in Bucha was staged (and if it’s not, Ukraine is to blame)

After Russian troops retreated from the Kyiv region, Ukrainian forces fanned out across the city’s suburbs, which had seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war. What the Ukrainians discovered shocked them as well as much of the world: widespread evidence of war crimes and atrocities committed by Russian forces. Russian forces in Bucha appeared to have wantonly executed people it knew to be civilians, including women and children, and forced women into sex slavery.

Russia immediately offered a series of contradictory explanations for the scenes in Bucha: that Russian troops had left the town before the killings began (which was false); that the killings were staged (false); and that if the killings were real, the massacre was a “false flag” by the Ukrainians (also false).

In fact, the transference of blame to Ukraine for Russia’s own heinous actions has been a hallmark of the war. Russia also claimed that its attack on the Kramatorsk train station, which killed over 50 civilians trying to flee violence in Ukraine’s east, was committed by the Ukrainians themselves.

And Russia has a long history of attempting to commit false flag operations to misattribute blame for the war. In the run-up to the invasion, these included plans for a staged, or even real, chemical attack perpetrated by Russia in eastern Ukraine that U.S. officials warned was going to be made to look like the work of Kyiv’s forces, in order to provide Moscow with a casus belli.

Moscow has also claimed, without any evidence, that the U.S. is planning on using an army of infected birds to send bioweapons into Russia.

U.S. officials have continued to worry that Russia will employ chemical weapons and blame their use on Ukraine.

The New York Times

Hiding in Plain Sight, a Soviet-Era Air Defense System Arrives in Ukraine

Andrew Higgins – April 14, 2022

DOBRA, Slovakia — Driving back to his village near the Ukrainian border last Thursday, the mayor had to stop to let a train pass, and assumed he wouldn’t have to wait long. But the flatbed wagons, stacked high with military equipment, just kept coming. He waited for nearly half an hour.

“It was a very long train, much longer than usual,” recalled Mikolas Csoma, the mayor of Dobra, a previously sleepy village in eastern Slovakia that, over the past month, has become a key artery funneling weapons and ammunition into Ukraine by rail from the West.

The train that delayed Csoma’s drive home was not only unusually long but also signaled a singular escalation in Western efforts to help Ukraine defend itself. It carried an air defense system made up of 48 surface-to-air missiles, four launchers and radars to guide the rockets to their targets, which in Ukraine means Russian warplanes and missiles.

As President Vladimir Putin of Russia vows to fight the war to its “full completion” and his forces regroup for an expected push in Ukraine’s east, NATO countries, including the United States, are scrambling to keep the weapons flowing and bulk up the country’s defenses.

Bolstering Ukraine’s long-range air defense capabilities is seen as especially critical. Ukraine already had its own S-300 and other air defense systems, but some of these have been destroyed, leaving Russia with a large degree of freedom to hit Ukrainian targets from the air with warplanes and cruise missiles.

Increasingly desperate to reverse this imbalance, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has repeatedly pleaded with NATO to “close the sky over Ukraine” by imposing a no-fly zone. But NATO has been unwilling to send its own warplanes into Ukraine.

Instead, the United States offered Slovakia, a fellow NATO member, a substitute battery of U.S.-made Patriot missiles if it would “donate” its aging S-300 system to Ukraine.

Jaroslav Nad, Slovakia’s defense minister and a gung-ho supporter of Ukraine, said it would have been unthinkable before Russia’s invasion for his country to send large quantities of even basic weapons across its eastern border free of charge, never mind an old but still powerful Soviet-made anti-aircraft system.

“But this is the world’s new reality,” he said in Bratislava, the Slovak capital. “We are a front-line state. We have war on our border and more than 330,000 Ukrainians coming to our country. The paradigm is completely different now.”

Putin, he said, “is equal to Hitler” and must be stopped in Ukraine before he can move further West. “Ukraine is literally fighting for our future,” he said.

Like Slovakia, other countries are also steadily expanding the scope of their military aid. The No. 2 Pentagon official met in Washington on Wednesday with the United States’ largest military contractors to discuss how ready they are to restock supplies and what new capabilities to send to Ukraine.

The meeting and a new package of weapons, including artillery and ammunition, is intended in part by the Biden administration to blunt criticism that it is not doing enough for Ukraine and is too hesitant to send long-range weapon systems.

Other NATO members are already sending Ukraine bigger and better weaponry than before, including T-72 tanks and short-range air defense systems from the Czech Republic.

The S-300 system from Slovakia is the biggest item a NATO country has sent so far. It was previously deployed in Nitra, a city east of Bratislava at the other end of the country.

From there, it was hauled by truck and train to Dobra, where the state-controlled rail yard has Soviet gauge tracks, wider than the standard in Europe, which means it can run trains to and from Ukraine, which also has Soviet tracks.

Other big items now under discussion for transport to Ukraine via Slovakia include aging MiG-29 warplanes and sophisticated, self-propelled Howitzers called Zuzana 2. Also under review is a plan for Ukraine to send hundreds of damaged tanks, some of them captured from Russian forces, across the border for repair in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland, all of which have experience fixing Soviet-made equipment.

Slovakia “is not going to send tanks because we don’t have any spare tanks,” Nad said, underscoring an issue confronting even Ukraine’s most eager backers. “We have to keep enough capabilities for our own armed forces.”

But Slovakia is transporting not only weapons from its own stocks into Ukraine. It is also sending military aid from many other countries, including the Czech Republic, Australia and what Nad described as “countries that claim that they are not sending military material to Ukraine.”

Hungary, Slovakia’s southern neighbor, for example, has declared itself neutral in the conflict and barred weapons from passing through its own territory to Ukraine — largely to avoid upsetting deliveries of cheap Russian gas — but it is believed to have quietly provided weapons through other countries.

Asked about this, a Hungarian government spokesperson in Budapest declined to confirm or deny that his country is providing military material, saying only that “Hungary’s standpoint is well known, and it has remained unchanged.”

Alarmed by the flood of weapons flowing across the borders of Slovakia, Poland and Romania, Russia has sought to stop or at least slow it by declaring all foreign arms destined for Ukraine a “legitimate target.” Russia’s foreign minister vowed last month that Moscow “will not allow” the transfer of Slovakia’s S-300 air defense system.

It is too late for that now, and after failing to thwart the delivery, the defense ministry in Moscow claimed on Sunday that Russia had already destroyed the Slovak missile system when sea-launched cruise missiles hit a hangar near the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Nad, the Slovak defense minister, dismissed this as a “fake news,” apparently aimed at saving Russia’s face and calming the nerves of Russian pilots sent on missions to bomb Ukraine. Nad said he had spoken with Ukraine’s defense minister on Monday and been assured that “this system is working and is working well” and was not in Dnipro.

Previous military cargo sent into Ukraine by rail through Dobra and the nearby town of Cierna nad Tisou contained mostly ammunition and basic military hardware.

A separate weapons conduit through Poland, the main route for American arms, has involved weapons like Javelin, NLAW and Stinger missiles, which are light, portable, high-tech and relatively easy to hide in trucks passing through Polish border crossings into western Ukraine.

An air-defense battery is too big to hide, particularly when it travels on trains with more than 120 wagons in full view of drivers blocked by their passage. The cargo was so bulky it took two days to deliver it just a few miles from Dobra into Ukraine in two separate trains.

“Everyone knows what is going on,” said Jakub Zsolt, a steel factory maintenance worker who lives across the road from the rail yard. He said his grandchildren were scared by all the commotion, but added that he had himself grown accustomed to the clatter of military helicopters and the rumble of trucks carrying weapons to the loading yard.

All the same, he said, he worries that Slovakia, a small country of just 5.4 million people, is now wading too deeply into Ukraine’s war with Russia.

“The Russians might attack us,” he said, adding that he did not understand why Ukrainians needed so much help when “they come here driving much nicer cars — Porsches and Mercedes — than we drive in Slovakia.”

Most refugees fleeing the war, nearly all women and children, don’t drive anything, but cross on foot carrying just a change of clothes.

Zsolt’s jaundiced view of Ukraine highlights the success of opponents of the pro-Western Slovak prime minister, Eduard Heger, who last week said, “We need to help Ukraine in every possible way to win this war.” His foes, playing to a substantial segment of the population traditionally favorable to Moscow, have sought to turn public opinion against support for Ukraine and seized on the war as a political opportunity.

Robert Fico, a scandal-tainted former Slovak prime minister, upended the government’s efforts to keep the delivery of the S-300 battery secret until it had safely arrived in Ukraine when he posted a video on his Facebook page last Thursday that showed a train carrying the disassembled air-defense system on its way to Ukraine.

He denounced Heger as “a freak in American hands who will do whatever the Americans tell him to do” and demanded that the public immediately be told where the S-300 system was going.

Nad, the defense minister, said the delivery had been kept secret for security reasons. The opposition, he added, is playing “political games” against the interests of their own country and also Ukraine.

“Russia is killing thousands of people in Ukraine and I am not going to count the votes that I would lose — or gain — based on the decisions of the government to help. The only thing that I am counting is the lives we can save in Ukraine,” he said.

Pavel Macko, a retired Slovak general who served with NATO in Afghanistan and Germany, said the S-300 system delivered to Ukraine dated from the 1980s, when Slovakia was a member of the Warsaw Pact as part of Czechoslovakia, and was inferior to U.S.-made Patriot missiles. But, he added, Ukrainians know how to use it and will be able to reduce Russia’s mastery of the skies.

“This is not just symbolic but an important addition that could help make Russia change their plans,” he said.

The mayor in Dobra, Csoma, said he supported helping Ukraine, but was noncommittal when asked about the wisdom of sending a powerful weapon system like the S-300.

Miffed not to be informed in advance about the disruption to traffic caused by the S-300 trains, he said: “They don’t tell me anything. They should at least let me know about this kind of thing.”

Nobody really worried much about the war spreading into Slovakia, he said, but the authorities have nonetheless dusted off old civil defense plans, with police taking an inventory of potential bomb shelters. In the event of conflict, the mayor said, he had been assured that district authorities would send buses to evacuate his village’s 520 people.

“If something bad happens, we will all leave,” he said. “So there is no panic yet.”