Trump team silent on Russian strikes targeting U.S. businesses in Ukraine — CNN

Russia has escalated strikes on facilities belonging to American companies operating in Ukraine, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, McDonald's, and Oreo, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine's president Andy Hunder, as reported by CNN. Hunder says the pattern over recent months is unlike anything seen before and amounts to a direct message aimed at American business interests.

The Trump administration, which has pressured Kyiv to stop striking Russian refineries by citing harm to American consumers, has said nothing public about Russian strikes hitting American-owned facilities in Ukraine. Hunder says the Chamber sought a meeting with Witkoff and Kushner last month to brief them on the hits and received no response.

Some U.S. businesses on the ground are reluctant to publicize being targeted, a former State Department official told CNN, while Democratic lawmakers have pushed the administration to speak up and support defense aid partly on these grounds. Hunder says he struggles to square the silence with an administration that markets itself as pro-business.

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