Zelensky blasts Samsung and LG electronics for doing business in Russia amid Ukraine war

 

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The Ukrainian president also mentioned South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co., pharmaceutical companies Sanofi SA and Johnson & Johnson, along with chemicals giant BASF SE and Bayer AG, the agricultural and drugs supplier. 

 Samsung shareholders asked the TVs-to-cellphones maker during its annual meeting Wednesday whether it would consider pulling out of Russia. Co-CEO Han Jong-Hee said the company was looking carefully at the state of economic sanctions against Russia and reiterated that product ships there had been suspended. Samsung did not directly address Mr. Zelensky’s remarks. Rival LG did not respond to a request for comment.