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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

BP shares in Kremlin oil firm are ‘blood money’, says Zelenskiy adviser

A worker turns a valve near oil storage tanks at a pumping station operated by Rosneft in Russia.
A worker turns a valve near oil storage tanks at a pumping station operated by Rosneft in Russia. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The chief economic adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has called on BP to exit Russia entirely after the fossil fuel firm was offered a £580m dividend by the oil giant Rosneft.

Oleg Ustenko has written to BP’s chief executive, Bernard Looney, to demand the British company cuts ties with the state-controlled Russian firm nine months after announcing its intention to leave the country.

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