Ukrainian Sandora and Garden Juice Brands are produced in Russia - media
Mykolaiv Mykolaiv region, which produced products of famous Ukrainian brands "Sandora" and "kindergarten", was stopped, which is why the products of these brands have disappeared from the shelves of Ukrainian shops for a long time, journalists reported.
As noted in the material "RBC-Ukraine", PepsiCo, which has the rights to the trademark "Sandora" and "Garden", continues their production at the plant in the swan in the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation, and then sells finished products in the markets of Belarus, Georgia Kazakhstan and other countries. Some of the products are made even under the Ukrainian barcode.
Therefore, the funds from the sale of products of original Ukrainian brands "Sandora" and "kindergarten", according to the material, go to the Russian budget, which enables the Kremlin to finance illegal invasion of Ukraine and the murder of thousands of Ukrainian citizens. In total, PepsiCo's international company paid over $ 810 million in the Russian budget last year.
The company was allegedly tuned to Ukrainian realities: baby foods produced under the Russian brand "Agusha", PepsiCo masks under a new, more Ukrainian name for production in Ukraine - Agaguna. Activists, saying journalists, urge to boycott the products of companies that continue to work in the aggressor market.
One of the high -profile public initiatives was the petition of the leader of the Democratic ax, Yuri Gudimenko of December 29, 2022, demanding mandatory marking for goods from brands - sponsors of Russian terrorism. The petition collected more than 30,000 votes and has already been considered by the President of Ukraine.
In response to the petition, Volodymyr Zelensky said: "The economic presence of international companies in the Russian Federation increases the financial and economic resources of the aggressor state used to conduct a criminal war against Ukraine.
The use of instruments within the legal field of instruments to encourage foreign economic entities to terminate economic The Russian Federation is part of the integrated work of state institutions and civil society in order to bring our victory closer. " The material also states that the Ukrainian government also continues to identify those companies that have not deduced assets from the Russian Federation and continue their work in the aggressor market.