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Financial Times - European companies’ Russian units suffer E100bn hit from Ukraine war
Summary of the front page
The Financial Times leads on a report that Europe’s biggest companies have suffered “at least €100bn [£86bn] in direct losses” from the sale, closure or reduction of Russian businesses since the start of the war in Ukraine last year.
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