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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses Russian military, National Guard, FSB, and Interior Ministry personnel at the Kremlin in Moscow.
  • A cofounder of Russian internet company Yandex has come out against his country's war in Ukraine.
  • Arkady Volozh, a billionaire who now resides in Israel, had refrained from public criticism.
  • Few Russians of such elite economic status have openly come out against the Ukraine War.

The billionaire cofounder of Russia's largest internet company, now living in exile, has broken a monthslong silence on the war in Ukraine and issued a statement forcefully condemning his home country's 2022 full-scale invasion.