German companies have paid nearly €1.72 billion in taxes to the Kremlin since Russia's invasion of Ukraine — enough to fund 10,000 attack drones targeting Ukrainian cities — yet more than half of German firms that operated in Russia before the all-out war remain there today, according to a new report.
Legally, some 250 German companies still active in Russia are doing nothing wrong. Many of these firms, such as the cheese manufacturer Hochland and the gypsum producer Knauf which produce fast-moving consumer goods are, in principle, not in violation of EU regulations.
