Shortly after the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the shipping company Hellmann Worldwide Logistics informed the employees of its Moscow enterprise that it was withdrawing from Russia. Before the war, Hellmann's Moscow office helped Russian industrial firms ship tools, spare parts and equipment to Russia from the West, but after the invasion such supplies were severely restricted by international sanctions. Instead, a Russian-registered firm called Heinrich Tapp Rus (HT Rus), owned at the time by at least two former Hellmann employees, took over many of Hellmann's old customers. Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has stated that it has nothing to do with the activities of HT Rus or the people who run it.