london march 3 reuters  a onetime goldman sachs gsn banker has written an open letter to david solomon calling on the wall street investment banks chief executive to exit russia and relocate staff from moscow to stay on the right side of history georgy egorov a former equity capital markets director who left goldman sachs for swiss rival ubs ubsgs in 2010 also criticised a message posted earlier this week by solomon on social media for not condemning the russian invasion of ukraine i was so proud as a goldman banker in russia to have worked on some of the largest transactions globally at the time  the largest bridge loan gazprom the largest syndicated loan rosneft one of the largest ipos vtb egorovs letter said goldman sachs on thursday declined to comment on the letter but a spokesman confirmed egorov had worked at the bank russianborn egorov who told reuters he had lived in britain for the past 23 years said that goldman should stop all operations in russia as a sign of protest and join in sanctions against what he called a criminal regime russia says it actions in ukraine are a special operation in a message posted on twitter on tuesday solomon called the invasion of ukraine tragic adding that the bravery and resilience of the ukrainian people were an inspiration goldman sachs will continue to take care of our colleagues support our nonprofit partners humanitarian efforts and add our voices to all those calling for peace solomon added egorovs post on the professional networking site which included a call for goldman sachs to relocate staff to london frankfurt or warsaw has notched up more than 1200 likes societe generale sognpa warned on thursday of the possibility that russia could strip the french bank of its local operations in one of the starkest warnings yet from a western company about the potential impact of the war in ukraine the bank whose 20 billion exposure to russia is one of the largest among foreign lenders said it was working to cut risks in the country as european banks review business there amid escalating titfortat sanctions with the west read more companies such as apple google ford and netflix are among those to have already cut or pause business in russia after its invasion of ukraine joining a growing list from shippers and carmakers to energy companies read more reporting by kirstin ridley and sinead cruise editing by alexander smith