The group's CEO, Sarunas Matijosaitis, said last week that Viciunu Grupe'sGrupe's executives supported plans to focus on business and production in Europe and suspend operations in Russia.
Since day one, we have taken necessary action regarding the operation of our companies in Russia. He said that these processes take time and intensive work and responsibility in the eyes of European and US partners, suppliers and our workforce.
Viciunai products are manufactured in the Kaliningrad region and sold in Russia and other eastern countries.
There have been previous reports that Viciunai products are also sold in Russia's annexed Crimea. The group said it could not control the sellers doing that.
Viciunai Grupe has branches in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine.
The Lithuanian group sells its products in more than 60 markets.