Founder and CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, Elon Musk surpassed Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos to top the Forbes list of the world’s richest people.
Musk’s fortune, according to the publication, was $219 billion as of March 11. At the same time, the amount given does not include Musk’s recently acquired 9.2% stake in Twitter.
Bezos’ net worth was $171 billion, he took second place on the list. Bezos has been the richest man in the world for the past four years.
The top 5 richest people in the world also include Frenchman Bernard Arnault ($158 billion) and Americans Bill Gates ($129 billion) and Warren Buffett ($118 billion).
Meanwhile, data cited by Forbes showed that the total net worth of the list’s dollar billionaires has fallen to $12.7 trillion from $13.1 trillion in 2021. And the list itself has become shorter by 87 positions – it consists of 2668 people. And yet, 40% of the new list of billionaires have been able to increase their wealth over the past year.
There are seven representatives of Ukraine on the list. In the highest place – 687th – Rinat Akhmetov with $ 4.2 billion. At the same time last year, with $ 7.6 billion, he occupied the 327th line.
Then come Victor Pinchuk – 1579th with $1.9 billion (a year ago – $2.5 billion), Vadim Novinsky and Konstantin Zhevago – 2190th with $1.3 billion (in 2021, respectively, $1.4 billion and $2.3 billion). billion), ex-owners of PrivatBank Gennady Bogolyubov and Igor Kolomoisky – respectively 2448th with $1.1 billion and 2578th with $1 billion (a year ago – $1.7 billion and $1.8 billion).
The list also included for the first time the co-founder of the fintech bank Revolut Vlad Yatsenko – $1.1 billion.
At the same time, the wealth of Russian billionaires has fallen by more than $260 billion. There are 34 fewer Russian citizens on the new list.
Of the 2,668 billionaires, 327 are women, up from 328 the previous year by Forbes. The number includes women who share their wealth with their spouses, the publication noted. At the same time, 101 women from the list are “self-made” billionaire, that is, they independently earned capital.
Forbes counted the most female billionaires in the USA (90), China (63) and Germany (35).
TOP 20 countries of Ukraine’s foreign trade partners in 2021 (thousand USD)
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking on Tuesday via video link at the UN Security Council, said that this organization cannot effectively ensure peace.
Citing numerous facts proving Russia’s involvement in the mass death of citizens and the destruction of cities in Ukraine, Zelensky asked the question “Where is the peace that the UN was created to guarantee?”
“Obviously, the key peace institution, which should ensure that any aggressors are forced into peace, simply cannot work effectively,” Zelensky said.
“The world saw what the Russian military did in Bucha while they kept the city in occupation. The world has yet to see what they did in other occupied places and regions. The geography is different, but the cruelty is the same and responsibility must be inevitable,” the president said.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a draft loan agreement for EUR 150 million between the government of Ukraine and the KfW bank (Frankfurt am Main) to support entrepreneurship.
According to Taras Melnichuk, representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, the government made the corresponding decision at a meeting on Tuesday.
The International Charitable Foundation for Helping Children Parimatch Foundation donated two modern artificial lung ventilation (ALV) machines worth UAH 2.5 million to the Okhmatdet National Children’s Specialized Hospital (Kyiv).
According to a press release from the fund, the devices have already been installed and are working.
“If you ask any resuscitator in the world what their biggest problem is, the answer is ventilators, you can never have too many of them. we have as many devices as there are patients. And this is a big problem,” said Alexander Urin, head of the department of intensive and efferent therapy for acute intoxications at Okhmatdet.
He stressed that Okhmatdet has now turned into a full-fledged hospital, where children and adults wounded as a result of Russian shelling are continuously treated.
In turn, the representative of the Parimatch Foundation in Ukraine, Vadim Misyura, noted that with the outbreak of the war, the foundation opened a fundraiser to help civilians in troubled spots in Ukraine. All funds raised will be used to purchase and deliver food, medicines, essentials, as well as to organize evacuation from the temporarily occupied territories and areas where hostilities are taking place, the press release says.
The leadership of Ukraine will continue to seek the introduction of an oil embargo on Russia.
“Unfortunately, we have not reached the oil embargo yet. We will continue to work to convince our partners of the oil embargo,” the head of the President’s Office wrote on Tuesday in his Telegram channel.
Thus, he commented on the introduction by the European Union of the fifth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation.
Earlier, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced proposals for new sanctions of the fifth EU package against the Russian Federation.
