"To me, it sounds as cynical as possible: by earning and paying excise taxes in the aggressor country, the manufacturer is trying to expand production and sales of its products in Ukraine," she stated.

Bulach emphasized that the Ukrainian government should respond decisively by stopping the company's investments in the Ukrainian economy.

"We have to make a decision and ban any development, and possibly distribution, of the products of these two tobacco companies in Ukraine," she summarized.

As Ukrinform reported, the NACP has added Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, the world's leading tobacco companies, to the list of international sponsors of war, as they continue to do business in Russia.

Stark Logistics, a transport company partly owned by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas' (Reform) husband Arvo Hallik, has continued doing business with Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This is despite government criticism of companies that have done so.

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Here are some of the multi-national companies that have backtracking on their initial promise of leaving Russia

tl;dr: Russia is a terrorist state. Choose to reject sponsors of Russian terrorism.

At 4am on Feb 24,2022, it escalated its terrorism by starting a full-scale war of invasion and occupation against the free and democratic people of Ukraine; kidnapping them, raping them, torturing them, bombing them, dropping cluster bombs on them, dropping banned white phosphorus on them, enslaving them, killing them, threatening their existence & future with nuclear destruction,and commiting ecocide against their nation. Because that is what terrorist states do.

Even today, there are multi-national corporates who carry on their business as usual in Russia. Their taxes sponsor Russia's war, their resources including manpower are at Russia's desposal to use in their illegal war, they create products that assist in the iilegal war on Ukraine.
They sponsor inflicting death, pain, and suffering on Ukrainians.

They either value profits over freedom or they support Russian imperialism. Or maybe both

Western companies are withdrawing from Russia under public pressure, but not everyone is affected. Three American corporations, including Mondelez, Mars and PepsiCo have shown rapid growth of their sales in Russia. All of them managed to cash in on the withdrawal of more conscious competitors.

That's what Bloomberg reported, citing the companies' financial reports and Russian tax data. The more the trade volume and profits of U.S. corporations in Russia grow, the more taxes they pay to the Kremlin. And the Russian authorities use this money to finance the war against Ukraine.

Russia initiated aggression against Ukraine in 2014. On February 24, 2022, it started a full-scale military invasion to the Ukrainian territory. This brutal war and military crimes of Russian troops caused a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine with thousands civilians killed and millions becoming refuges.

As a reaction to this act of aggression, many international companies decided to leave the Russian market, while some others continue doing business there as usual. We track such decisions of companies and urge them to stop funding the war.

The National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) has included the Procter & Gamble corporation in the list of international sponsors of the war.

China’s largest oil and gas equipment research, development and manufacturing industrial group, Kerui has been listed as international war sponsors by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP).

The decision was caused by the fact that the company not only continued to supply its products to the Russian Federation after the full-scale invasion, but also strengthened cooperation with the aggressor state, in particular, increasing export volumes in 2022 by almost 8.5 times.

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) listed Chinese manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance equipment as international sponsors of war.

The company belongs to a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur Li Shufu. The head of Chinese car conglomerate Geely has backed the Geely car brand's decision to increase car sales in Russia after global rivals pulled out of the market following the Russia's invasion of Ukraine.