In them, as the media notes, the oligarch criticized the full-scale invasion of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and the policies of the Russian authorities.
So, in April 2022, Deripaska called the war “madness” that “must be ended now.”
Deripaska, who wants to achieve the lifting of personal sanctions, has repeatedly spoken out against the war in Ukraine and advocated peace.
Speaking about the Russian economy, in January 2026, he said that in the Russian Federation “they are stupidly wasting everything that they managed to mobilize in 2022-2023 with such hard and persistent work.”
