Zelensky asks French companies to leave Russia

In a speech broadcast to deputies and senators, the Ukrainian president called for people to stop supporting the Russian “war machine”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged French companies operating in Russia to stop supporting “the war machineRussian and to leave this country, citing Renault, Auchan and Leroy Merlin.

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«French companies must leave the Russian market. Renault, Auchan, Leroy Merlin and others, they must stop sponsoring Russia’s war machine“, he said in a speech broadcast by videoconference to French deputies and senators.