A number of movies circulating on social media present large strains of consumers filling Russian Ikea shops after the corporate introduced that it was briefly closing shops within the nation because of the nation's ongoing battle with Ukraine.

In a tweet on Thursday, Oleksandr Shcherba, who beforehand served as Ukraine's ambassador to Austria, shared a video of a Russian Ikea location with a caption that learn, "Russians stocking up on IKEA merchandise. The final probability earlier than IKEA leaves."

The video begins by displaying a lot of prospects ready in line at an Ikea retailer in Russia. A number of the strains proven within the video may be seen wrapping round totally different components of the shop.

Andrey Zakharov, a Russian investigative reporter for the BBC, additionally shared the same video on Twitter.

"Queues at IKEA in St. Petersburg (the shop will shut tomorrow)," a translated caption from Zakharov learn.

Related movies, displaying lengthy strains of consumers at Russian Ikea places had been additionally posted on Reddit.

On Thursday, Ikea, the world's largest furnishings firm, introduced that it was briefly halting operations in any respect of its 17 places in Russia in addition to stopping operations in Belarus.

"The devastating conflict in Ukraine is a human tragedy and our deepest empathy and considerations are with the tens of millions of individuals impacted. The rapid actions of Inter IKEA Group and Ingka Group have been to assist the non-public security and safety of IKEA co-workers and their households, and we are going to proceed to take action," Ikea's proprietor Ingka Group stated in an announcement. "The conflict has an enormous human impression already. It is usually leading to severe disruptions to produce chain and buying and selling situations. For all of those causes, the corporate teams have determined to briefly pause IKEA operations in Russia."

Along with briefly closing retail places in Russia, the corporate additionally stated that they're pausing import and export operations "out and in of Russia and Belarus," in addition to halting Ikea manufacturing companies in Russia.

The announcement by Ikea comes as quite a few totally different corporations have began to boycott Russia as conflict continues to rage in Ukraine.

Clothes firm H&M Group made the same announcement on Thursday saying that the corporate was briefly pausing all gross sales in Russia.

"H&M Group is deeply involved concerning the tragic developments in Ukraine and stand with all of the people who find themselves struggling," the corporate stated in an announcement. "H&M Group has determined to briefly pause all gross sales in Russia. The shops in Ukraine have already been briefly closed because of the security of consumers and colleagues."

Different corporations and types akin to Apple, Spotify and Disney, have additionally introduced comparable actions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Newsweek was directed to the assertion issued by Ingka Group on Thursday after reaching out for remark.

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Movies posted on social media confirmed Russians crowding Ikea places after the corporate introduced that it was briefly closing places within the nation.Warren Little/Getty