Veteran envoy is first top official to quit Kremlin since Ukraine war began
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[MOSCOW] A veteran Kremlin envoy has resigned and left Russia with no intention to return, a source said on Wednesday, the first senior official reported to have quit since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine a month ago.
Anatoly Chubais was one of the principal architects of Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms of the 1990s and held senior business and political roles under President Vladimir Putin. He had been Putin's special envoy to international organisations since 2020.
Chubais hung up the phone when contacted by Reuters. The source did not say why he had quit or where he was. REUTERS
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