On Monday, March 21, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba spoke about companies that continue to refuse to exit the market RF.
– Not all companies want to leave the Russian market – we are actively stimulating some. Companies that are well-known are Nestle, Unilever – household chemicals that we are all used to. We will also work with Tetra Pak – packages that are known to everyone … There are many specific companies – for example, which will supply some bearings to Russia and no one knows its name, but if these bearings are not supplied to the Russian Federation, they will not be able to manufacture military equipment. We know these companies and work with each of them point-to-point,” Kuleba said on the air of the national telethon.
The minister said that today he signed a letter to the president of Auchan and the head of the network Leroy Merlin, who also remain in Russia.
– And we will not stop, because it is necessary to exit the Russian market not only for moral reasons, but also for practical reasons: after all, business sees that Russia's economic policy is unforeseen and carries high business risks. To cooperate and invest taxes in the economy of a country that kills children is immoral in principle. But we are also putting pressure on economic logic,” Dmitry Kuleba said.
He stressed that the Foreign Ministry would not be afraid to name companies that do not leave the Russian market by their names, even though some of them made such requests.
Kuleba did not say who specifically asked not to criticize them publicly and tried to agree on this, but said that no such “agreements” it can not be.
– If you stay, then you will be called by name and the whole world will know that you are making money on Ukrainian blood. We have a very tough and uncompromising position here,” he concluded.
