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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Butler

‘This is business as usual’: boss of bombed Ukrainian vodka maker seeks to expand exports

Two men standing with vodka glassses
Yuriy Sorochynskyi (left), CEO of Nemiroff vodka, with a colleague. The company is Ukraine’s largest spirits export brand. Photograph: Nemiroff

Businesses in Ukraine are “not sitting and waiting for the war to end” and are working to expand despite bombs hitting shipments out of the country, according to a leading vodka exporter to the UK.

Yuriy Sorochynskyi, the chief executive of Ukraine’s largest spirits export brand, Nemiroff vodka, has said its products have continued to flow to big chains including Tesco and Sainsbury’s as it copes with the harsh realities of almost four years of war.

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