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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

Sainsbury’s renames chicken kievs and pulls Russian-made vodka

A chicken kyiv
Sainsbury’s plans to change its chicken kyiv packaging in the coming weeks. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Sainsbury’s is changing the name of its chicken kiev to chicken kyiv and is joining Waitrose, Aldi and Morrisons in withdrawing a Russian-made vodka from the shelves in the latest action by British retailers to signal solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

The UK’s second biggest supermarket said the packaging for the poultry dish would change in the next few weeks, switching the Soviet-era name for the country’s capital for the Ukrainian version.

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