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Companies Shut Ukraine Operations and Watch for Sanctions as Russia Attacks (slashdot.org) 146

Danish brewer Carlsberg and a Coca-Cola bottler shut their plants in Ukraine on Thursday following Russia's invasion while firms making goods from jet engines to semiconductors warned that supplies of key raw materials could suffer. From a report: Carlsberg, which has a 31% share of Ukraine's beer market, halted production at all three of its breweries in the country, while Coca-Cola said it had triggered its contingency plans which included shutting its bottling plant. Britain's biggest domestic bank Lloyds, meanwhile, warned that it was on heightened alert for cyberattacks from Russia while companies operating in Ukraine were looking at how to shield their staff from the conflict. Russian forces invaded Ukraine by land, air and sea on Thursday, confirming the worst fears of the West with the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two. Many companies with significant exposure to Russia said they were still waiting to see the full force of Western sanctions before deciding on any action, although backers of the suspended Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline were already taking a hit. Washington imposed sanctions on the company behind Nord Stream 2 on Wednesday and European Union leaders are meeting later on Thursday to decide what punitive measures they will impose as retribution for Russia's attack
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Companies Shut Ukraine Operations and Watch for Sanctions as Russia Attacks

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  • All or nothing (Score:2, Interesting)

    by war4peace ( 1628283 )

    If there's ONE corporation who would not stand behind democracy and cut ALL Russia off from its services, it's all going to be in vain.

  • by Carewolf ( 581105 ) on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:52AM (#62299147) Homepage

    If sanctions doesn't trigger a similar response to operations in Russia, they are not hard enough.

  • by edis ( 266347 ) on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:03AM (#62299175) Journal

    Measures have to be unprecedented and quick. One of the key punishments can be building of the Iron Curtain from the side of the developed world. You have to minimally behave, to deserve participation in the civilized cooperation. Another task - to review composition of the international institutions. Russia can not be present and even guiding UN Security Council, when it is invading neighbors: it is ridiculous. Out must it go in shame.

    • Well, in the case of wars of aggression & invading sovereign states, I agree. Such aggressors shouldn't be allowed to participate in civilised world affairs. Which countries are we talking about, BTW?
  • There are always parties who are willing to act as middle men and make the goods flow again.
  • by jaamkie ( 2555134 ) on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:13AM (#62299211)
    Russia is launching attacks via the internet, filtering is broadly allowed for security... We should all be blackholing Russian traffic.
    • by ve3oat ( 884827 )
      I have a website. Is there an "easy and simple" way to block all visitors and e-mail from Russian IP addresses and .ru referers?

      The list of Russian IP ranges is several thousand entries long. Not sure I want to put that in my .htaccess file.
      • by Nkwe ( 604125 )

        I have a website. Is there an "easy and simple" way to block all visitors and e-mail from Russian IP addresses and .ru referers? The list of Russian IP ranges is several thousand entries long. Not sure I want to put that in my .htaccess file.

        Use a pfSense firewall with the pfBlockerNG [netgate.com] extension. If you don't want to manage a separate firewall and only use .htaccess, you might be able to extract the IP ranges you are interested in from the above package.

      • Use ipsets and iptables to block at the source before the web server has to deal with it. Ipsets are hashed and much faster. If you try to put it in the web server, you'll choke. Since IP allocations do drift, you'll eventually end up blocking some non Russian traffic most likely. Use GeoIP lookups on whatever makes it through the top level ipset block to see if it resolves to a .ru, .su, or other friendly domain. That won't help with referrers, but not much point in that.
  • Ukraine is (was?) a hub for software development for a number of multinationals. I know Samsung and few other companies have 100+ dev teams based in Ukraine. Russian military action will have a lot of long-term effects due to this.
    • Ukraine is (was?) a hub for software development for a number of multinationals. I know Samsung and few other companies have 100+ dev teams based in Ukraine. Russian military action will have a lot of long-term effects due to this.

      They are (although I only know of smaller companies but with a high number of Ukraine employees). There's been articles in my local financial press about companies worrying about the safety of their employees that I've now noticed have been removed from the website; I imagine at the companies request. The cynic in me says those deemed important enough have been or is in the process of being evacuated while the other jobs are moved to the next cheapest place so it's not obvious to me here will be any signifi

  • by DigitalSorceress ( 156609 ) on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:22AM (#62299451)

    My (US based) company's dev and QA team are based in our St Petersburg Russia office - I'm genuinely worried about what's going to happen if /when the US cranks down sanctions hard.

    Our team is a really great bunch of brilliant coders etc.. and they personally have nothing to do with the situation but I worry about their livelihoods as well as how it might affect our releases

    Of course my bigger concern is for the people of Ukraine - especially the LGBTQIA+ community if Russia succeeds in this - we only need to look to Crimea for an idea of just how bad it can get...

    The whole situation is pretty crappy for just about everyone - but hey the price of oil is up to like $100 a barrel and I'm sure lots of billionaires are going to get marginally more rich from it... hooray for late stage capitalism! or something /sarcasm

    • Yeah quite a few of us are on edge. We have worked closely with Gazprom and Rosneft in the past and today had a lovely all hands meeting with our legal council about what possible sanctions could mean for our future work. Our office pulled back all employees out of Russia early last week, it was a good call.

      This sucks after many years of relative peace in Europe.

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