Western companies tried to pay not to be included on Ukrainian list of war sponsors

Instead of withdrawing from the Russian market, the head offices of several Western companies offered the Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) to remove them from the list of war sponsors and, in exchange, to allocate part of their revenues to the Armed Forces and government funds.

Source: Ekonomichna Pravda

Details: Ekonomichna Pravda's sources have said that the companies made such an offer to the National Agency on Corruption Prevention after being included on the list of international sponsors of the war. Ukrainian officials declined this offer.

It is also stated in the article that one of the Western retail chains, in an attempt to compensate for the negative impact of being on the list, gathered large Ukrainian food suppliers and offered them "the best shelves in European supermarkets on favourable terms". However, Ukrainian producers also refused the offer.

There are only two food retailers on the NACP list: Auchan and Metro.

Recently, the American company Mondelez was included in the Ukrainian list of international sponsors of the war, which resulted in a large-scale boycott of its products in Sweden and Norway.

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