 Good afternoon, and welcome to this very important session with this foremost of women leaders from Ukraine. I think we all were very much touched by the speech and interventions from your president. He really said to us at the end that we should wake up every morning thinking about how we can support Ukraine. He also earlier in his speech mentioned that he was waking up every morning to be informed about how many people had died in their fight for Ukraine. Just think about the realities we are faced with. Russia has a broken international law. They have broken international humanitarian law and they're broken the UN Charter in their attack on Ukraine. So, Madam Yulia Sirudenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine. When we wake up in the morning and reflect on how we can support your country in this fight for its territorial integrity and freedom, what more can we do? It's not a nice question. Good question. First of all I think I would start with the words of thanks to all democracy country for those one who support Ukraine who actually put Ukrainian lives above oil and gas from Russia who put Ukrainian life about some benefits that can achieve from Russia. That's why we are really grateful for that support and actually for the first days of wars. It seems for us gloomy. We predict it's very gloomy but no because of resilience of Ukrainian business and because of the assistance from our partner side. All essential systems are operating. Banking system, IT sector, retail chains, you know, railways, post service, they all are operational right now. So now actually at the first week of the Russian invasion it seems for us that growing season is going to be under the collapse. But now our Ukrainian farmers they, you know, use all land just for providing us with the food and providing the world with the food. So now what we need from your side? We need your assistance in unblocked the Black Sea ports. So it's essential things for us as we need to export as we know export oriented country. It's for us essential to have this opportunity to export. That's why we need to unite your efforts in the United States, EU efforts to arrange this export operation. Of course it's related to the defense issue but anyway we need to move further. Of course, you know, we are under our infrastructure under attack every day. But we are not giving up and we continue to fight in. And that's why I think that economic front is essential as a military front. And that's why we're doing actually some measure that you're providing us with help us to fight with Russian invaders on economic front. It is not less than the military one. So that's why we, as I told you, we're not giving up. We have Ukraine rather brave people and our business show resilience. And I think if you can increase your support, of course on public finance, you've heard our president at least five billion per month. And of course we need this money now, but we are fighting for our future. So that's why it's a second item after the reblocking port that we are struggling right now. And the third one, of course, it's frozen assets of Russians. So Russian oligarchs, they can be confiscated in proper way and be directed to the fund that might cover all these damages caused by invaders. That's why I think that these three items we can focus on. And we would be grateful if you can increase the essential policy and can focus on the three items that can solve us and help us to fight on economic front. No, thank you so much. And I'm glad to be able to inform you that on Wednesday there will be a meeting. And I think you're already invited to the Prime Minister, where 70 COs now have signed up for COs for Ukraine, also showing that the private sector is really walking the talk. I think that's a good segue to you, Yevanya Kravchuk, a member of parliament. And when we prepared this session, you told me that you are on behalf of the parliamentarians. You have coined your group as Women Diplomatic Battalion. Yes, that's right. And I guess you also listened to what Deputy Prime Minister said about rebuilding and reconstructing Ukraine and how can we support both humanitarian way, but also to create the future for the young people of Ukraine. Thank you so much. First of all, I wanted to tell you that the war is still there. I brought you a piece of striking element of Iskander missile that hit Kiev region in March. It was collected by my husband, who is police officer in Kiev region. And he told me bring this and show this to political leaders, to organizations and tell that we are still suffering and we need to win in this war to stop the suffer of Ukraine and give the future to our kids, to my eight years old kid who has to go to basement when we have an air siren. Speaking about the humanitarian needs and humanitarian crisis, I will say that we have different stages of humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. And the closer you go to Russia, the worse is situation. So this is the key, you know, the presence of Russia on our territory. We have around 12 million people that had to change their location. Five million people had left the country, but they want to come back. Seven million people are IDPs internally displaced people. Of course, they need a place to live, social services, they need to go to the hospital to find a new school at least online. And thank you for the support, of course, for our people outside of the country and also helping humanitarian inside of the country. And we see that we sort of switched from what we needed from the very beginning, like food and medicine. Now we need, of course, we need financial aid. Also, we need petroleum and diesel because there's a shortage of gasoline in Ukraine. And it both are very important for economy and for just for people to live in the country. But, you know, when I'm asked what is the best humanitarian aid for Ukraine, I answer weapons, more weapons. Because you can send us for years, tourniquets, food, medicine. But if you send us enough of weapons, if you put sanctions strong enough to Putin to stop this war, not to go further, not to have money, because when you pay for gas and oil from Russia, it returns as the striking element or a bullet to innocent child. Today, 11 years old girl died in the hospital. She was from Luhansk region. And she became 233rd victim of this war, a child that died because of this war. And then you have these occupied churches. And the situation there, it's not a humanitarian crisis, it's humanitarian help. Because Russians will not let the food and medicine inside of these churches and they're not letting people out. In Kyrgyzstan region, in the south, people stay for five days in the cars, in the field, and Russians will not let them go out. So please help us. Please give us more weapons, more financial aid to be sustainable in this situation, and we need to win this war. Because this is the only way to end these atrocities, to end the suffering of people, to end this humanitarian crisis. Thank you. Just reflecting on the fact that breaking basic international law, even hitting schools where children are being taught, that I think is, we haven't seen this for in many, many years. It is such a telling story. There's still a strong private sector in Ukraine, and we heard that President Zelensky also said in his speech that for those that are in solidarity with Ukraine, you will remember, and they will also do well when it comes to business in Ukraine, this 43 million people, and it's still a powerful nation. We have with us also Yulia Kiryanova, CEO of Smart Holding, impactful company in Ukraine, and I was wondering, how can you run your company in the middle of war? How is it with employment? Are people coming to work? How can you run your business? Yes, we are. As the whole business society in Ukraine does. But maybe we start from the small introduction. We are the strategic investor in Ukraine operating in more than eight industries. It was quite a diversified portfolio. But first of all, I would like to reflect on Mr. President's set in business terms. Actually, I'm in business for 20 years. All these years, I walked 24-7, and I see how business community does the same. We survived the crisis of 2008, the beginning of war 2014, pandemic crisis. Also, we survived all the elections, you know, and this is a challenge for the business, not just to operate, but to develop further. And we are like Alice in Wonderland. We have to run quicker to stay where we are, and we are not staying where we are. And you can see it by the numbers in the Ukrainian economy. So, and unfortunately, this is not the hard work that brought us to this stage, but the war. And I would say that the war impact is unprecedented. So, looking back at 2014, we didn't experience that much of a pressure on all industries in the country. We are, our business portfolio has three key industries to the economy. Two of them are export-oriented, still industry and agriculture, as well as gas production. So, let me brief you on what's going on in big numbers for you to understand what is the scale. So, in still industry, in 21, we produced, the whole industry produced 23.5 million tons of steel products and merchant peak iron. Now, and we exported 80 percent of that, now it dropped to eight something and six to be exported. This is one third. And the reason of that, actually, we have a stake in the largest steel and iron or producer met-invest and we contribute 70 percent of exports to the entire export of the country. Two steel mills went out of operation in Mariupol for the reasons you know. There are some other businesses that are not operating and this is 53 percent of the steel industry in general. Iron ore is a different story because here the export channels are not working well. We just do not increase production enough to be able to export everything. On the gas industry, sorry, I would talk about agriculture now. In agriculture, the key export products are corn and wheat. We produce 54 percent less of corn and 35 of wheat. We have a company, Harvest, that is among top 10 agrarians in Ukraine and we have lost 68 percent of arable land. So the gas is 22 percent down. I may continue that, but to wrap it all, I would say that throughout our portfolio we see more than 50 percent down in production. However, there is a good news. We are alive. And by saying that, I do not mean only that we struggle every day and keep going with all our employees. I am saying that we are looking in the future. And yes, this is when you stop thinking about the future, you are dead and the enemy wants us dead. So we are alive. Thank you. Thank you. And it is about the future and we have one of our global shippers with us too. I just saw a news flash coming in here. A Russian soldier was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in Ukraine's first war crimes trial since the invasion began. Sending also a strong message about atrocities you have seen. And I think we have all been just heartbroken to see what this war has brought and the way also the Ukrainian people are suffering. Let me then go to Liana Autonomava, your young global shipper, impact officer at Kiev Hub. And I know also based on the crisis and the humanitarian sufferings, we are seeing you have started an NGO to deal with mental health, but you are also looking into the future, how to build a future for the young generation in Ukraine. So I agree to have you here. Liana, for yours. Yeah, thank you so much. So I think that I'm here with one very clear message that we need to gather not only rebuild the country, but we want to reimagine the country. We want unite the whole world, our government, business, civil society, and all the international partners not to just rebuild the country, to build buildings as they were. We want to reimagine, we want to, and I'm part of the Restored Ukraine Initiative, which is gathering architects, anthropologists, urban designers, all with foreign education to build new cities, new villages using the latest technologies to build cities and villages not for the 21st century, but for the 22nd century. And for that, we need all the knowledge, all the expertise, dream, ambition, not only from Ukraine, but from across the globe. And we ask to join us on this journey and we ask you to be bold, to think how we actually can do it, how we actually can use all the latest technologies to build new cities, to build new areas, to reimagine civil society, governance, to think how digital currencies could influence daily lives of people. And for that, we need to join international community and the best knowledge bring it to Ukraine and do it together with Ukraine. Yeah, and to build on that, I want to say that the world, I want to say that the word for the next 10 years or five years of our lives, I want to name it as the collaboration of government, civil society and business. And I want to ask as well our governance to be very open to this new ideas, to be open to open the doors so that we can make Ukraine, let's say, an urban laboratory and then also provide solutions for the world. Because we're not only the only country in crisis and we can be the provider of solutions. Thank you. Thank you so much. I know that time has run out for our panel, but I would like to go back to you for a short question and a short answer, Deputy Prime Minister. You know, it is, for us, it is such an honor to have had you here. And we can almost not with words really tell how much we admire your courage. But of course, as you also alluded to, Deputy Prime Minister, words is one thing, but you also have to see international solidarity really no happening. And what would be your challenge to the powerful business community after World Hair Know as a short end of this session? Over to you. So actually, you know, I think all our panelists, we are focused and make, so we understand that we need to rebuild the new country. We need to rethink about the development of course from our partners, as I told you. So we need to, I would like to stress once again, we need to enlarge sanction to provide the secondary sanction. We need to, you know, to right now, we're challenging with a shortage of finance. So we need your support, financial support there. We need to unblock the supports from our side. We are starting to think about the recovery plan of Ukraine, and we are absolutely sure. And I think we need your assistance. So we think that, first of all, we need to become and to obtain the full membership of EU. We want to have the full access to G7, the EU market. And we are, you know, we're happy that United Kingdom and EU and Canada were the first who lifted all duties for Ukrainian goods and give us a opportunity to export more on that market. Of course, we would like to develop new industries and absolutely agree with my colleagues. So it's going to be, I think it's going to be, we will develop more that industry that already good structure in Ukraine. IT, it's going to be steel industry, it's going to be agricultural industry. And of course, it's going to be military. Military is number one items. I think that the question related to safety, to defense will go through all sectors in the next, I think, 20 or 30 decades. So that's why in all these issues, we need your assistance. And all these issues, we need to have a frank dialogue with our European partners. And of course, resilience of our business is amazing. But with your support, if you enlarge something and you give us more support, we will win the war, I think soon. That's why we really need your assistance. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I think you were right, Yavanya, when you said that this is women diplomatic battalion. I felt very strong messages from these really foremost women leaders of Ukraine. Your country can be proud of you. We are proud of you. And I'm also challenging all the COs here to join COs for Ukraine meeting on Wednesday afternoon to really walk the talk. And so show real solidarity with Ukraine. Thank you so much. Thank you. Believe in Ukraine as much as we believe in Ukraine.