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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

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Trump administration's posture on Russia is fixed. The Republican Party around it is less so.

A few traditional foreign-policy Republicans are remembering the importance of NATO &transatlantic security, Bennett Freeman, frmer US diplomat & #B4Ukraine SteerCo member, told coalition's conference. Midterms cld amplify them.

The greater short-term opportunity, Freeman said, is EU—where Orbán's defeat in Hungary has opened space for sanctions & funding gaps to close. #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

The Trump administration's position on Russia hasn't shifted publicly. Below the surface, something is moving

Iran is doing what four years of Ukrainian advocacy couldn't. Russian support for Tehran is making US congressmen ask why US is easing pressure on Moscow, Olena Pavlenko of Dixi Group told #B4Ukraine after a week in Washington

The opening is narrow and unofficial. The coalition's job, Pavlenko said, is to make the Russia-Iran link impossible to ignore. #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

Lifting sanctions on Russia now will cost the West more later, not less

Any future Russian war—against Estonia, against another neighbor—will have to be ended with the same money West is currently saving by easing pressure now, Olena Pavlenko of Dixi Group told #B4Ukraine conference

"They will pay twice. They will shoot themselves in the head."
The argument cuts against the economic case for sanctions relief. It also reframes relief as a cost, not a saving. #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

For years, Ukrainians warned Germany that Nord Stream 2 was a strategic mistake. Berlin didn't listen until "really bad things happened," Olena Pavlenko of Dixi Group told the #B4Ukraine conference.

The same blind spot is now showing up in conversations about energy infrastructure protection. EU member states are telling her informally that Ukrainian-style hardening of transformers and substations isn't needed for them.

EU shadow fleet sanctions don't work. Brussels has stopped not even a dozen ships, said Bohdan Chumak at #B4Ukraine.

Sanctions procedures drag on for months. Western components keep flowing into Russian missiles and drones.

Criminal prosecution of enablers, not slower lists.

#ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

Ukrainians have been advocating for sanctions by talking about Ukrainian losses. That's the wrong frame.

The argument that lands with US, UK & European audiences is one built around Russian risks to their own national interests, #B4Ukraine SteerCo member Valeriya Melnichuk told the coalition's annual conference. "Russia as a problem, rather than Ukraine as a victim."

It's counterintuitive for Ukrainian advocates. Melnichuk says it's also more effective. #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

Sanctions fail at enforcement, not designation. Investigations expose foreign enablers; names go on lists, yet nothing changes, said Viktoriia Vyshnivska at #B4Ukraine.

British optics used in F-35s and Challenger tanks were delivered to a Russian aviation plant via Kyrgyzstan. BBC named the seller, Valeria Baigascina of Rama Group. A few designations followed. She made her Instagram private. Yet the supplies kept flowing.

#StopFundingTheWar #ExitRussia

The pressure to keep Russia sanctions suspended isn't only coming from Moscow.

At the IMF & World Bank meetings, African countries & some poorer Asian states are quietly lobbying the US to continue the suspension of sanctions against Russia so they can buy oil more cheaply, #B4Ukraine SteerCo member Valeriya Melnichuk told the coalition's conference.

They believe cheaper Russian oil helps them. The lobbying is happening in rooms where Ukraine isn't represented. #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

For 50 months, the West has piled sanctions on Russia. 20 EU "packages." Loud promises to "cripple" Putin's war machine.

Today: Russia still occupies one-fifth of Ukraine. 2,500 civilians killed in 2025—the deadliest year yet.

A #B4Ukraine conference in Kyiv asks the question Western capitals avoid. Why didn't sanctions work? We're covering - keep tuned!
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/26/sanctions-on-russia-do-they-work-why-why-not-blame-changes/
#ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

For four years, the message to multinationals has been one direction: leave.

Now the signals from the US administration are pointing the other way. Talk that Exxon could rebuild its Russian fossil fuel business—and that other firms might profit from a thaw—is reaching companies still deciding whether to exit, #B4Ukraine Executive Director Nezir Sinani told the coalition's conference.

An American law firm is preparing a class action against US chipmakers whose components are found inside Russian weapons.

The defendants include Texas Instruments, AMD, Intel, and Mouser Electronics, Bohdan Karnaukh of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University told the #B4Ukraine conference. The case argues the companies should be held responsible for their contribution to the Russian war effort.

Russia's endgame: sanctions lifted, Western companies back, occupied territories permanently part of Russia. Targeting foreign enablers, not just Russian firms, matters for the long run, said Jeremy Pizzi of Global Rights Compliance at B4Ukraine.

Russian corporations extract Ukrainian grain, but shadow-fleet tankers hauling it are owned by non-Russian middlemen in places like Liberia. Block the middlemen, Russia can't move it.

#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

Two recent EU directives let member states confiscate assets tied to sanctions violations and transfer them to Ukraine.

Germany alone has over 2,000 active sanctions evasion investigations. One involves €700mn, Tetiana Khutor of the Institute of Legislative Ideas told the B4Ukraine conference. Lithuania, Poland, and Finland have hundreds of cases each.

None of the money has reached Ukraine. National budgets keep it. #B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

A new Ukrainian proposal would impose a special tax on every multinational still operating in Russia & route the proceeds to Ukrainian recovery

The 2024 draft, called "sanction toll," was built with US Congress members, Institute of Legislative Ideas' Tetiana Khutor told #B4Ukraine conference. Then political winds shifted

Current US administration "is clear&publicly clear" that profiting from war is fine, Khutor said—a posture that froze the proposal's US track
#ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

Russia has done $524bn in damage to Ukraine. Around $397bn in Russian state and private assets sits frozen abroad.

The amount actually transferred to Ukraine from confiscations: a little over $7mn, Tetiana Khutor of the Institute of Legislative Ideas told the B4Ukraine conference. 99% of all confiscations have happened inside Ukraine itself.
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

The database, run by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, lists nearly 1,500 tools tied to around 400 Russian companies. Most of the manufacturers behind those tools haven't engaged. https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

The database, run by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, holds nearly 1,500 tools traced to around 400 Russian firms. https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

https://b4ukraine.org/what-we-do/business-of-leaving
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

The Iran war and the global energy crunch are widening Moscow's taps again. Europe's 2027 phase-out target is the line that has to hold, Sinani said. "We don't allow it to backslide."
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

The frozen assets belong to Ukraine, Sinani said—not to companies that chose to stay in Moscow and now find themselves on the wrong side of a Russian ruling.
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

Coalition campaigns have engaged the shareholders directly. Nothing has moved. "They're fully aware of what they're doing," Sinani said. "They want to remain complicit in this war."
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

"Any delay today is another day of being complicit in war" - Nezir Sinani, B4Ukraine Executive Director

B4Ukraine keeps pushing and pressing on PepsiCo, Raiffeisen Bank & around 2000 other foreign companies who keep making money and paying taxes to the Russian budget. Some Asian automotive companies may have returned through covert channesl
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

"If Russia succeeds, the principle of territorial integrity dies. This is why Canada continues to support Ukraine and efforts and defund Russia."

B4Ukraine coalition conference in Kyiv kicks off with statement by Canadian Ambassador Natalka Cmoc. We're covering the conference, stay tuned to learn more
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar

Sanctions and corporate exits have cut off hundreds of billions from Russia. Yet multinational corporations, energy-trade loopholes, and technology exports continue to sustain the aggressor’s war economy.

On April 26 in Kyiv, global experts, civil society leaders & policymakers unite to examine the solutions needed to defund and disarm Russia

We'll be covering as a media partner-join the conversation!
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar
https://b4ukraine.org/what-we-do/kyiv-conference

#Unilever is a #British consumer goods firm that defends its right to sell ice cream in russia. Claiming to show deep concern for its russia-based employees, Unilever has confirmed in a letter to #B4Ukraine that it would let its 3,000 staff to be conscripted. In 2022, Unilever paid $50 mln of profit tax to the kremlin, enough to buy a Su-34 fighter bomber.

Unilever: A beloved brand or international sponsor of war? You decide!

Stand with #Ukraine

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8SL-RXNLQS/?igsh=cGM3Ym9oNTJzajUw

#Nestle- + #CocaCola #Boykott - na klar!
Inwischen sind aber - u.a. durch die #B4Ukraine-Recherche - so viele Marken dazu gekommen, dass ich 'nen Spickzettel brauche 🙄:
PepsiCo
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo#Kontroversen
Coca Cola
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company#Kritik
Nestlé
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Kritik
Mondelez
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondelez_International#Kritik_an_Mondelez
Ferrero
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrero_(Unternehmen)#Kritik
Mars
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Incorporated#Kritik
Unilever
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever#Kontroversen_und_Kritik
P&G
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble#Kritik
Philip Morris
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Morris_International#Kritik
JTI
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_International

The German Companies’ Game of russian Roulette

As of September 2023,

👉 67% of 393 German companies which had ties to russia at the start of 2022, continue to do business in the country, according to the #B4Ukraine Coalition and KSE Institute.

👉 Only 8% of #German firms had exited completely by selling or liquidation of business,

👉 and 25% are in the process of leaving the russian market

Read more here🔗 https://b4ukraine.org/whats-new/german-companies-game-of-russian-roulette

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine
#StandWithUkraine

What is B4Ukraine?

#Multinational companies that continue doing business with russia are helping to finance this war through the taxes they pay, the supply chains they support and the technologies they provide.

#B4Ukraine is a global coalition of 80 civil society organizations working together to block the kremlin’s access to these vital resources.

(3 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 https://youtu.be/SRSDfhUkZa8?si=qwZF1HJo5SLMX__K

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine
#Boycottrussia

#Exitrussia now! Be Independent! Be brave!

August 24 marks Ukraine's independence day and 18 months since russia's brutal full-scale invasion.

Over 260 international companies that have exited the toxic russian market, depriving the kremlin from additional sources of war financing.

#B4Ukraine have a special message for over 1,800 foreign firms remaining in russia

You can STILL change this! #Exitrussia now! Be Independent! Be brave!

(1 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 https://youtu.be/3TvD_FBOysY?si=Y-B_zwcKLHCKSN7o

#Ukraine 🇺🇦