Russia Deliberately Targets US Businesses in Ukraine as US Remains Silent

A targeted Russian military campaign is systematically striking facilities owned by major American corporations in Ukraine, while the US President Donald Trump administration maintains a muted public response, The New York Times reported on May 12.

Since last summer, Russian drones and cruise missiles have hit Ukrainian operations tied to prominent US brands, including Coca-Cola, Cargill, Boeing, Mondelez, Philip Morris, and the electronics manufacturer Flex Ltd. Recently, a mid-April attack saw seven Russian drones strike a vast southern Ukrainian grain terminal owned by US farming giant Cargill in just three minutes.

Corporations have largely kept quiet to avoid alarming investors, but the American business community in Ukraine is quietly raising alarms in Washington. Andy Hunder, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, stated that the Russian strikes are clearly designed to “stop American business coming into Ukraine.”

Despite repeated appeals, the Trump administration has not publicly condemned the attacks. According to The New York Times, Washington’s response has amounted to little more than internal acknowledgments, prompting accusations of a double standard. Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Olha Stefanishyna noted that Washington pressured Kyiv to refrain from striking a Russian Black Sea oil terminal because US companies held stakes in it, yet remains silent when American factories are bombed by Moscow.

The escalating attacks appear correlated with Kyiv’s efforts to deepen economic ties with the United States. Ukrainian business experts told The New York Times that the strikes are meant to frame American investments as an unacceptable risk, disrupting efforts by the US and Ukraine to build long-term commercial partnerships.

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Following a February visit to Ukraine, a bipartisan group of US senators was briefed on the deliberate targeting of American assets. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the top-ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, recently signed a bipartisan resolution denouncing the attacks, noting that the White House’s response “has been silence.”

“Either Washington sends a credible signal that American businesses will be protected,” former Ukrainian deputy economy minister Oleksandr Romanishyn told The New York Times, “or it quietly accepts a precedent that other authoritarian regimes will study very carefully: that you can attack US-linked companies abroad and face only rhetorical concern.”

The deliberate targeting of American corporate assets is part of a sustained campaign that dates back to the beginning of the full-scale invasion, when Russian forces attacked a Cargill-chartered vessel and seized its regional facilities. The strikes have steadily escalated, moving beyond collateral damage to targeted hits. The Kyiv office of Boeing’s Ukrainian branch had previously suffered a direct missile strike.

Months later, Russian cruise missiles slammed into a manufacturing plant in the western city of Mukachevo owned by the US-based company Flex, injuring 15 people at a civilian facility that solely assembles small household appliances like coffee makers.

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