Vladimir Putin has taken control of the DMG Mori factory in Ulyanovsk, Russia. The German-Japanese mechanical engineering company is now demanding from the federal government.
The expropriation by Russia creates a new level of escalation in the economic conflict with Germany. How the West will react to Russia's expropriated factory remains to be seen. The company itself announced that it had already stopped all activities in Russia in spring 2022 - almost at the beginning of the Ukraine war.. After February 24, 2022, the company no longer delivered machines or components to Russia. “At the moment the impression is given that we have broken our promise,” said a company spokesman in autumn 2023. � “This accusation is 100 percent false and we reject it with all our might.” “We have completely cut off any external IT connection to Russia in order to make on-site operations impossible,’ the company explained. It is “very likely” that machines that were manufactured before the Ukraine War were sold “without the knowledge or consent” of the responsible management.