the handful of remaining russianlinked stocks trading in london were struggling to stay afloat thursday as the russian invasion in ukraine dragged to an eighth day drawing global backlash the london stock exchange in a move echoing the german boerse earlier this week announced it was suspending trade in secondary listings for russian companies which sweeps up companies such as gazprom ogzd and sberbank sber  the ftse 100 index ukx fell 13  to 7334 in a week that has seen the index lose 21 only energy stocks rose for the week as crude prices cl00 brn00 continued to march higher on thursday though bp bp bp was flat and shell shel shel was down by 12 shares of anglorussian mining group polymetal international poly tumbled 32 bringing its yeartodate losses to 84 the company reported earnings in line with expectations on wednesday and announced a dividend of 97 cents per share “the conflict in ukraine and related economic and political developments are likely to require a lot of management efforts to maintain company performance” vitaly nesis group ceo of anglorussian mining group polymetal said in announcing results those results polymetal’s shares have been detached from its actual business said jonathan guy analyst at berenberg in a note to clients “polymetal as a company with twothirds of its assets in russia and a saint petersburgbased management team cannot be isolated from the current geopolitical turbulence associated with the sharp deterioration in relations between russia and the west” said guy he said polymetal really has no choice but to exit from the ftse 100 “ultimately the kazakh business may be separated from the russian business although at this point this isn’t management’s intention” said guy who maintains a buy rating on the company but has halved his share price to 500 pence from 1000 pence shares of fellow russian miner evraz evr dropped 8 bringing yeartodate losses to 84 and petropavlovsk pog stock was bucking that trend with a gain of 7 but loss so far for 2022 of 88 the london stock exchange lseg itself released results on thursday with shares surging 9 “london stock exchange was much more confident on its ability to ride out the crisis pointing to the fact that its operations in russia and ukraine account for less than 1 of total income” said aj bell investment director russ mould in a note to clients