Russian billionaire calls for 'peace as soon as possible'

Oleg Deripaska has taken to Telegram to call for peace

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has taken to Telegram to call for peace "as soon as possible" in Ukraine, Qazet.az reports.

Reacting to a TED talk by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he agreed with Harari that "we need peace".

Deripaska - who founded some of Russia's largest industrial companies - added that the "whole world will be different, and Russia will be different" following the conflict.