Kremlin veteran Anatoly Chubais quits over Ukraine war and leaves Russia

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Veteran Vladimir Putin’s envoy has resigned against the Ukrainian war and left Russia without the intention to return, two sources said on Wednesday, the first senior official to rest with the Kremlin since Putin launched his invasion a month.

The Kremlin confirmed that Anatoly Chubais had resigned from his own will. Chubais is one of the main architects of economic reform Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s and is Putin’s boss in the first Kremlin work of the future president.

He holds senior business and political work under Putin, lately served as a special envoy of Kremlin to international organizations. Chubais hung up when contacted by Reuters. The sources did not say where he was. President U.S. Joe Biden flew to Europe on Wednesday for the emergency NATO Summit in Ukraine, where attacking Russian troops stopped, cities under the bombarding and port of Mariupol were beside fire.

Four weeks in a war that has pushed a quarter of 44 million Ukrainians from their homes, Russia has failed to capture the main city of Ukraine, while Western sanctions have beens it from the world economy.

The government, Russian forces have taken big losses, has been frozen in place at least a week in most fronts and facial supply problems and fierce endurance. They have switched to siege tactics and city bombings, causing massive destruction and many civil deaths. Moscow said the goal was to strip his neighbors, and “special military operations” would plan. This denies targeting civilians.

The worst hit has become Mariupol, the South Port is fully surrounded by Russian forces, where hundreds of thousands have been shelter since the early days of war, under constant bombings and with food, water and hot equipment cut. The photos of new satellites from Maxar’s commercial company released last night showed a massive destruction of what was once the city of 400,000 people, with smoke columns rising from housing apartment buildings.

No journalists can report from the parts of the city of Ukraine for more than a week, where Ukrainian officials said Russia had bombed the theater and the art school used as a bomb protection, burying hundreds of people alive. Russia denies targeting the buildings. Biden, because he arrived in Brussels on Wednesday night on his first foreign trip since the war began, would meet NATO and European leaders in the emergency summit at the West Military Alliance Headquarters.