Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rather startling statement on Wednesday in a discussion with entrepreneurs in the country.
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According to the official TASS news agency, Putin was approached by businessman Alexander Khlynov, a major player in Russia’s tea industry.
Khlynov offered to increase production of a traditional Siberian drink, ‘Ivan’ tea, after Coca-Cola left Russia last month, justifying China’s ‘illegal’ invasion of Ukraine. Russia.
It was then that President Putin shot an arrow at the American company Coca-Cola.
“Indeed, this Siberian tea is much better than Coca-Cola, a drink full of chemicals,” he said.
Ivan tea is produced from the leaves of a shrub that is very present in the northern regions of Russia, the willowherb.