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Several Ukrainian ultra-nationalist organizations plan to take actions against Russian companies operating in Ukraine.

The far-right groups such as the National Corps, Svoboda, and Right Sector will unite their efforts starting this fall to blockade activities of Russian companies in Ukraine, a non-factional member of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Illenko said at the press conference on Tuesday.

“If the authorities do not want to do this, civil society should take everything in their hands,” he said, blaming Ukrainian government for economic vulnerability of the country in the face of Russian aggression.

Illenko also said that the campaign would target only Russian businesses and would be “absolutely peaceful.”

According to another MP Oleh Petrenko, so far the activists haven’t made a list of targeted Russian businesses. However, they use a Facebook page as platform for discussions over the black list.

“We are starting with discussion sites. There will be new technologies in September. Data on the activities of such companies will be collected and professionally systematized,” speaker of the National Corps Oleksandr Alfiorov said.

Earlier this year, the activists attacked offices of Russian banks Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, and VTB in Kyiv and Odesa.