OBI hypermarket. File photoMOSCOW, 8 Mar. OBI is closing its stores in Russia, the Baumarkt Manager profile publication reports, citing a statement from the company. «OBI is closing home goods stores in Russia,» the portal writes. According to the material, under the circumstances, the company's management «had no choice but to stop doing business in Russia.» It is specified that there are 27 OBI stores in Russia, employing about 4,900 employees. /uploads/2022/03/8a0237a9c162308159c6883e42169dc6.jpg» />Russia is losing IKEA. IKEA loses RussiaMoscow launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, civilian the population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
