One of the magnates immediately agreed to transfer a large sum.
During a closed meeting with major businessmen, Putin proposed that they make voluntary contributions to the budget to finance the war with Ukraine, reported The Bell, citing sources.
According to them, Deutsche Welle writes, this proposal was made during a meeting in the corridors of the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). The interlocutors of The Bell described the essence of the Russian president's speech with the phrases "they said, we will fight" and "we will go to the borders of Donbas."
The publication's sources claim that the initiative belongs to Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, who sent Putin a letter the day before the meeting with the idea to "shake up business in difficult times for the country." As a mechanism for raising funds, it was proposed to issue military bonds of federal loans.
Two interlocutors confirmed to The Bell that businessman Suleiman Kerimov immediately agreed to the request and promised to contribute 100 billion rubles to the budget. Another unnamed major entrepreneur also supported Putin's proposal, the publication writes.
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