JTI is the leader of the tobacco market in russia (market share of 34.9%) and one of the largest FMCG companies in the country in terms of sales. The company's portfolio in the russian market includes international brands such as Winston, LD, Mevius, Camel, and Sobranie and russian brands such as Donskoy Tobacco, Kiss, Play, Peter I, and Troika. The company is one of the largest producers of low-risk products (Ploom tobacco heating device and Logic Compact capsule-type electronic vaporizer).
JTI operates four plants in Russia: two finished product factories, Peter I in St. Petersburg and Donskoy Tobacco in Rostov-on-Don, as well as two tobacco raw material processing plants, JTI Elets in the Lipetsk region and Cres Neva in the Leningrad region..
JTI is the largest investor and leading taxpayer in the russian tobacco industry. Over the past 20 years, JTI's investments in the russian economy have exceeded USD $4.6 billion. In 2020 the company's tax payments accounted for 1.4% of the federal budget revenue.
A JTI representative said that the JT Group has suspended new investments and marketing activities in russia, but the company continues to manufacture and distribute products in russia. "In these circumstances, JT Group continues to make the necessary decisions to address the changing situation in accordance with applicable regulations and international sanctions," the spokesman said, adding that the russian market generated about USD $2 billion in 2022 for the JT group, or approximately 11% of its consolidated revenue that year.
JTI finished 2021 with revenues of USD $7.4 billion. Of this amount, USD $3.6 billion went directly to the russian budget. And this is the cost of about 100 russian fighter jets carrying Kinzhal missiles that terrorize Ukrainian cities almost daily.
Thus, Japan Tobacco International is sponsoring the aggression against Ukraine.