It is a story of how the military, diplomats and concerned citizens work as one for a common result.
The week before last, the Ukrainian military seized another collection of Russian equipment on the battlefield. There, in particular, were an military vehicle "Tigr", missile system Pantsir and other equipment. The tiger's hood was opened, and there was a surprise: details of the German company BOSCH. In the Pantsir as well.
The experts and I checked everything carefully, and in a few days I aired the biggest German talk show Anne Will. Using this specific example, he told 4 million viewers about how for years, German technology has helped build a Russian military machine that is currently waging a barbaric war of aggression against the Ukrainian people.
The accusation caused an earthquake in the German media. The company responded by saying that all their contracts with Russia explicitly prohibited using parts for any military purpose, not civilian. That is, the Russians, in the usual manner, illegally installed parts on military equipment.
Meanwhile, the scandal in Germany with the help of diplomats and journalists has grown to the scale of a government investigation.
Today we have a concrete result that will further weaken the Russian army and economy.
Bosch has officially announced: "Due to the fact that Bosch products - contrary to local contractual agreements - could be used for non-civilian purposes, we have stopped supplying components for trucks to Russia and Russian customers." In addition, a complete halt to production at Russian plants, including a household goods plant in St. Petersburg, is expected.
We will definitely continue to reveal all the facts of sponsorship of the Russian military machine by foreign companies and press for the immediate withdrawal of foreign businesses from Russia.
And in general, any decent international company has no place in Russia.
I urge all concerned citizens to participate in this process and increase pressure. Russia today is murder, lies and barbarism. It is not only immoral for an international company to work with it in any form, but it also causes direct reputational and financial damage.
