The war on Ukraine caused Russian billionaires to suffer astronomical losses.
According to Arabiya Net, the wave of selling Russian assets in global markets, in addition to the collapse in the value of shares of Russian companies, has caused a decline in the fortunes of the richest people in Russia listed under the list. Bloomberg of the 500 richest people in the world, these rich people lost about 88 billion dollars in 10 days.
- Vladimir Potanin: Russia's richest man, head of the world's largest nickel producer, lost $6 billion, and his current fortune is $23.3 billion.
- Alexey Mordashov: owner of steel and gold plants, he lost 20% of his fortune, which currently stands at $20.1 billion.
- Roman Abramovich: owner of Chelsea Football Club, whose fortune declined 12% to $13 billion.
- Gennady Timchenko: owner of the Volga Investment Group, his fortune fell 30% to $ 10 billion
- Mikhail Friedman: owner of the sanctioned Alfa group, whose fortune fell 18% to $9.95 billion
- Vagit Alekperov: Chairman of Lukoil Corporation, and lost 55 percent of his fortune to $5.27 billion.
