Zelensky attacks Swiss businesses for continuous transactions in Russia  

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the weekend, condemned Swiss businesses for continuous transactions in Russia in the aftermath of sanctions by Western countries following the Russian military operations in Ukraine. Zelensky decried that these businesses, including Nestle, are operating as usual even while children are dying in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president, addressing a rally in Swiss outside the country’s parliament in Bern, enjoined Swiss investors to withdraw their businesses from Russia, including urging Swiss banks to freeze funds belonging to Russian elite.

Zelensky berated companies that are still doing business as usual in Russia after the siege on Mariupol by Russian forces. He decried that it is “painful” that those behind the conflict had funds stashed in Switzerland.”

The Ukrainian president telling the Swiss authorities to join the “fight against evil”, in a video message from Kyiv, declared: “The money of the people who unleashed this war is in your banks. Help fight this. So that their funds are frozen.”

Zelensky chided the Nestle, which he said its slogan is “good food, good life”, for continuing operations in Russia while children’s lives a destroyed in Ukraine by Russian forces.

He lamented: “Business works in Russia even though our children are dying and our cities are being destroyed;” and people in Mariupol are “without food, without water, without electricity, under bombardment.”

Demonstrators converged at the Federal Palace in Switzerland in soldiery rally for Ukrainian people.