Ukraine conflict: Rusal’s best decade may end as customers flee, costs soar amid Russia sanctions

• Rusal’s 2021 net profit more than quadrupled to a record US$3.22 billion, topping the previous peak in 2010 by 12 per cent
• Rusal had been riding the wave of surging aluminium prices, which jumped 41 per cent last year to an average of US$2,553 per tonne