Oleg Deripaska is the chairman of the supervisory board and owner of 66 percent of the shares of the global aluminum tycoon. — Rusal concern, but also a shareholder in several other companies. He is considered a close friend of Putin and one of the few who has regular contacts with the Russian president. In early August, he was in Japan, where he represented Russia at a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council. In an interview with Nikkei Asia magazine, he criticized his country’s defense spending, and called the war in Ukraine “crazy.”
See also: Embarrassment and a heavy blow to Vladimir Putin. Experts analyze the situation in Russia
Oleg Deripaska “On the Other Side”
“If you want to stop the war, you have to stop the shooting first,” he said in an interview, calling for an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire.” He declined to answer a question about his relationship with Putin. He simply said that “there is no change.”
This was not the first time Oleg Deripaska had spoken out against the war in Ukraine. At the start of the invasion, he called for a quick end to the conflict. He wrote on social media that it was “a catastrophe that our children will never forgive us for hundreds of years.” However, this was not an unequivocal condemnation. Now he has gone much further, which has been noticed by pro-Kremlin elites.
See also: Sanctions are working. Russia moves closer to barter exchange with China
— Previously, Deripaska’s position on the special military operation was ambiguous. Now he has clarified his position. He is on the other side, – said philosopher Alexander Dugin, widely considered one of the main ideologues of the war, in his latest oligarchic statement reported by Reuters. “This is a stab in the back for our troops and an aid to the terrorists of the Ukrainian army,” Dugin wrote in a statement published on his Telegram channel.
