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Polyus Finance PLC

04 April 2022

   For immediate release                                                              4   April 2022 

Fitch withdraws Polyus Finance Plc credit rating

Polyus Finance Plc (the "Company") notes that Fitch Ratings ("Fitch") has withdrawn the Company's credit rating on 1 April 2022 along with the ratings of multiple Russian entities .

On 7 March 2022, Fitch announced the suspension of its commercial operations in Russia. On 23 March 2022, Fitch highlighted its intention to withdraw its ratings on all relevant Russian entities and their subsidiaries following the European Union's ban on providing credit ratings to Russia-based entities and debt.

Polyus

Polyus is the world's fourth-largest gold mining company by production volumes and the largest gold miner in terms of attributable gold ore reserves. The Company has the lowest production costs among major global gold producers. Its principal operations are located in Siberia and the Russian Far East: Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Magadan regions and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Investor and Media contact

Victor Drozdov, Director Communications & Investor Relations Department

+7 (495) 641 33 77

drozdovvi@polyus.com

Forward-looking statements

This announcement may contain "forward-looking statements" concerning Polyus and/or Polyus group. Generally, the words "will", "may", "should", "could", "would", "can", "continue", "opportunity", "believes", "expects", "intends", "anticipates", "estimates" or similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements relating to future capital expenditures and business and management strategies and the expansion and growth of Polyus' and/or Polyus group's operations. Many of these risks and uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond Polyus' and/or Polyus group's ability to control or estimate precisely and therefore undue reliance should not be placed on such statements which speak only as at the date of this announcement. Polyus and/or any Polyus group company assumes no obligation in respect of, and does not intend to update, these forward-looking statements, except as required pursuant to applicable law.

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