“Obviously there could be a related crisis in our second most populous area, Ukraine, so we started making contingency plans for that,” Kardapoltsev said of the company's planning earlier this year. “At the beginning, at the end of January, we anticipated that since (US President Joe) Biden claimed that the attack on Ukraine and the invasion of Donbass (an area in eastern Ukraine) were inescapable, we would have to be proactive”.