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.
Hold off investments: company postponing future planned investment/development/marketing while continuing substantive business
Pausing InvestmentsReducing Activities: company scaling back some business operations while continuing others
Scaling BackPause operations: company temporarily curtailing operations while keeping return options open
SuspensionClean Break: the company completely halting Russian engagements or exiting Russia
WithdrawalExit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market or liquidated local entity(ies)
Exit CompletedCustoms documents show AMG purchased about $600,000 worth of Tsugami equipment from an official Japanese supplier in 2021. The purchase then increased after the incursion to $50 million in 2023, with the entire increase coming from two shadowy middlemen. Amegino's first provider is a UAE-based provider under US sanctions whose website is initially hosted on servers in Russia. Its owner is Andriy Mironov, according to the corporate intelligence company Diligencia; There are no other details about Mironov's past. The second company is ELE Technology, which fraudulently presents itself as a "division of Gray Machinery Company", a distributor of machine tools in the USA.
The USA has imposed sanctions on three companies based in China, as reported by the US Department of Defense. One of these companies, General Technology Limited, was involved in the supply of soldering materials used to connect components in rocket engines for ballistic missiles and in the production of combustion chambers.The companies were involved in activities or agreements that significantly contributed to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or the means of their delivery, including missiles capable of delivering such weapons.