Co-founder of Russian tech giant Yandex condemns ‘barbaric’ war

Arkady Volozh said he is ‘horrified about the fate of people in Ukraine’. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The co-founder of Russia’s biggest internet firm has condemned Moscow’s “barbaric” invasion of Ukraine, offering some of the strongest criticism to date by a prominent Russian business figure of the Kremlin’s military actions.

Arkady Volozh, who co-founded Yandex in Russia in 1997, said: “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it.”