Transparency International’s Ukraine Chapter (on whose Board I serve) recently posted the following message on its social media accounts, which I am reposting here:

Economic sanctioning of Russia is already imposed by governments of the EU, US, Canada and other countries. However, fighting Putin’s aggression is not only the matter of national governments. International businesses have to make their contribution.


Supporting the russian regime is unacceptable for companies that value human lives.
Facing financial risks connected with dismissal of the Russian market is nothing in comparison with reputational losses.


We will update it


@CompanyX, your taxes in #russia goes for the shelling of civilians in Ukraine. It’s time to stop doing business there, isn’t it?
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This is an important call to action, and it is certainly a proper statement for TI to make. Thank you for reproducing it here. One question it raises for me is whether there are any current efforts to track potential corruption in the security sector on both sides of this conflict, especially as material support floods in from the West to aid the Ukrainian resistance. It will be difficult to track in the fog of war, but I imagine this will be an important area for anticorruption advocates to investigate in the aftermath of this conflict.