Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a closed meeting with leading businessmen, called on them to make voluntary contributions to the war financing budget. Bell writes about this with reference to sources.
The publication’s interlocutors described the essence of Putin’s speech with the words “They said we will fight” and “We will go to the Donbass border.”
The idea of \u200b\u200b”disrupting business in difficult times for the country” belongs to the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin. According to The Bell, he made this clear in a letter to Putin the day before. Federal war bonds were proposed as a fundraising mechanism.
Some businessmen agreed to the request immediately. As sources told The Bell, Suleiman Kerimov promised 100 billion rubles.
Putin’s closed meeting with businessmen was held at the conclusion of the conference of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Businessmen. At the conference, the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shukhin, complained to Putin that Internet outages were causing problems for companies. There was no reaction from the president at all.