Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman, left, and businessman Viktor Vekselberg talk during a conference in Moscow on September 17, 2019. (VEON) a mobile network provider based in Amsterdam that generates half its revenue in Russia. Alfa Bank was hit last week by sanctions that will prevent it from raising money through the US market.įridman resigned Tuesday from the board of Veon, The billionaire is also chairman of Alfa Bank, Russia’s fourth biggest financial services firm and its largest private bank. Fridman has a net worth of $11.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index. The Financial Times was first to report the letter.įridman is chairman of Alfa Group, a private conglomerate operating primarily in Russia and former Soviet states that spans banking, insurance, retail and mineral water production. While a solution seems frighteningly far off, I can only join those whose fervent desire is for the bloodshed to end,” he added in the letter, which was provided by his office. “This crisis will cost lives and damage two nations who have been brothers for hundreds of years.
I am deeply attached to Ukrainian and Russian peoples and see the current conflict as a tragedy for them both,” wrote Fridman. But I have also spent much of my life as a citizen of Russia, building and growing businesses. “My parents are Ukrainian citizens and live in Lviv, my favorite city.
Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have broken ranks with the Kremlin and called for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.įridman, who was born in western Ukraine, wrote in a letter to staff that he wanted the “bloodshed to end.”
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