Nestlé logoZURICH, Mar 11The Swiss concern Nestle will continue to supply socially significant products to Russia, including baby food, pet food and breakfast cereals, the company's press service told RIA Novosti. Earlier, Reuters reported that Nestle had stopped exporting and importing to and from Russia such products as Nespresso coffee or S.Pellegrino water. According to Nestle, the company suspends exports of products from Russia and imports of products to Russia, with the exception of socially significant product categories, and exports to the CIS countries. «We keep importing socially significant product categories including baby food, breakfast cereals, specialty meals, and imports of specialized pet foods and veterinary diets (sold in specialty stores and veterinary clinics),» the company said.
Macron said that the EU is ready to impose new sanctions against Russia. They also added that Nestle factories and offices in Russia continue to operate as usual. Earlier it became known that Nestle was suspending investments in Russia due to the situation in Ukraine. At the same time, the company stated that they would continue to supply food products to the Russian Federation. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian 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.
