[Musk's "unspeakable Hidden" under the Russian-Ukrainian crisis: Tesla buys aluminum from Russian oligarchs] since the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, large Western companies have withdrawn from the Russian market or cut off business relations with Russia. But documents show that Tesla, like most other big carmakers, still does business with at least one Russian supplier. According to internal documents obtained by the media, Tesla has purchased millions of euros worth of aluminum from (Rusal), a Russian aluminum company founded by Oleg Deripaska (Oleg Deripaska), a Russian oligarch sanctioned by Western countries.