Ikea store banner BELGRADE, Mar 21Photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin, allegedly appeared in the IKEA store in the Croatian capital Zagreb, were mounted in a graphic editor, RIA Novosti was told in the company based on the results of the check. Earlier, information appeared in the media and social networks that in Zagreb in the IKEA store in all frames for photographs appeared portraits of Putin. An employee of an IKEA store in the Croatian capital Zagreb told RIA Novosti on Monday that the information was being verified. Public Relations Milivoj Djilas. IKEA is the world's largest home furnishing retail chain founded in 1943 in Sweden. Since 2000, the company has opened 14 full-size stores in several regions of Russia and three urban format outlets in Moscow. IKEA announced on March 4 that it was suspending all sales in Russia. Stores of Swedish furniture and household goods will not work for three months — until the end of May. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. niches of Western companies in Russia
