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

Donate ‘wartime profits’ to Ukraine or pay windfall tax, MPs tell BP

Russia's oil producer Rosneft’s headquarters in Moscow.
Russian oil producer Rosneft’s headquarters in Moscow. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

BP should donate its “wartime profits” in Russia to the reconstruction of Ukraine or ministers should impose a special windfall tax on the oil company to force it to do so, MPs have told parliament.

The British oil supermajor has a 19.75% stake in Rosneft, one of the Kremlin’s most important oil assets and signalled its intent to exit Russia nine months ago, after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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