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Sir Richard Branson’s peace concert for Ukraine thwarted by Russian invasion

The British billionaire and business magnate, Sir Richard Branson, tells ѿý Newsday that hours before Russian troops invaded Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked him if he “would consider throwing a peace concert in the Donbas region of Ukraine with Russian and Ukrainian artists…and then Putin started a war… It makes you want to cry”.

(Picture: Sir Richard Branson. Credit: James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

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