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Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that two Russian drone strikes have hit a Mondelēz International facility in the country’s Sumy Oblast region.
In a statement shared on X, Sybiha said the drone strikes damaged the plant’s premises and injured several employees.
“Fortunately, there were no casualties,” he added. “These systematic and deliberate Russian attacks on American business interests in Ukraine demonstrate that Russian aggression is not only a threat to Ukraine, but a direct blow to American economic interests in Europe.”
Mondelēz – headquartered in the US and operating worldwide, with a portfolio of brands that includes Oreo, Milka, Philadelphia and Toblerone – has operations in both Ukraine and Russia.
Two of the company’s facilities in Ukraine were reportedly damaged amid the conflict in 2022 – the Suby Oblast plant, which produces biscuits, and a potato chip plant located on the outskirts of Kyiv.
The company has defended its decision to continue doing business in Russia following criticism and consumer boycotts, with CEO Dirk Van de Put telling BBC News that withdrawing from the country would impact thousands of jobs and leave the business vulnerable to the Kremlin taking control of its local operations.
Despite this, Mondelēz said it has scaled down operations in Russia, including discontinuing new capital investments and suspending advertising spending in the country.
Its operations and activity in Russia accounted for 3.7% of 2025 consolidated net revenues, according to its 2025 Annual Report, while Ukraine accounted for 0.4%.
In 2023, Mondelēz announced it would reorganise its Russian operations to be stand-alone with a self-sufficient supply chain. It emphasised that suspending its Russian operations entirely would mean “cutting off part of the food supply for many families who have no say in the war.”
Several other F&B giants, including Danone, Unilever, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, have exited Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine was launched in February 2022.
