 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us for this very special session at the World Economic Forum. We have had many extraordinary conversations here, but I think this one is going to be truly special. We have an address by a world leader and then a panel of world leaders to discuss what is really the central issue in the world today, which is Russia's war on Ukraine, the West's response, the world's response, and where that will go. To start us off, you know, they sometimes say there are people who need no introduction. I think that this might be the definition of such a person, but I think there's another definition that comes to mind. I think that in years to come when dictionaries are trying to decide how to describe and define the word courage, they might say such a quality as President Zelensky of Ukraine demonstrated during the Russian invasion of his country. So without any further ado, the first order of business is we will hear directly from Khiv live from the President of Ukraine. I will take one second before to just let you all know that we have a very special situation right now, which is the first lady of Ukraine is in the audience and she will be watching her husband. Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen, 10 hours ago, 10 hours ago a tragedy happened near Khiv. The helicopter crash planned lives of the ministers of the internal affairs of Ukraine, his colleagues and helicopter, when it fell near a kindergarten. 14 of the Ukrainian families lost their loved ones today and many more, more than as are. Losing did, because I should ask you to honor the memory of every person that has lost with that minute of silence. Please. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for this minute. Only one minute. But it keeps the memory about so many people. Ukraine lives thousands of such units, including three minutes on January 14. Three minutes. The time it took for a Russian missile to travel hundreds of kilometers, keep a residential block in Nimro and kill at least 45 people. 45. My address will be short about the time we are short of. About small minutes. About years made of this unit. Three years ago I spoke at Davos for the first time in Korsakon. The topic was how to build a cohesive and sustainable world. I'm talking online now. And the topic is how to cooperate in a divided, fragmented world. Conclusions there. The world cannot keep the pace with changes and challenges. The list of crisis, global security, environmental, food security, energy wants needs to be amended with another one. The time crisis. The list of costs for decisive, efficient joint actions needs to be extended with one more. The call for spirit. The spirit of decisions making. The action of the civilized world. Treads this are outpacing life. The tyranny is outpacing the democracy. Russia needed less than one second to start the war. The wall needed days to react with forced sanctions. The time the free world uses to think is used by the terrorist state to kill you. Ukraine and its allies have been resisting it for almost a year. This period proved all our prompt actions brought positive results. The opening of European borders. The great deal. The energy unit together they save millions, millions of lives and not only in Ukraine. It is not only Ukraine but the whole world needs exactly this pace of decisions and actions. The world was hesitant in 2014 when Russia without hesitation occupied the Crimea. The world was hesitant in 2022 when Russia without hesitation made the war full scale. The world must not hesitate today and ever. When the evil seeks revenge, the world needs result and speed. Russia is exporting terror. Russia is spreading the strain of the war around the world. Ukraine offers the world a peace formula. Please, ten steps that the world must make faster than Russia makes its new moves. Mobilization of the world must outpace the next military mobilization of our joint enemy. The supply of Ukraine with air defense systems must outpace Russia's next missile attacks. The supplies of western tanks must outpace another invasion of Russian tanks. The restoration of security and peace in Ukraine must outpace Russia attacks on security and peace in other countries. A tribunal for military crimes must prevent new months. The expansion of nature and the EU must outgo the spread of the Russian aggression. We routinely defend values which some of the allies take granted as a fact of life. For us, the fact of life is the world in need of resolute and prompt steps. Ladies and gentlemen, three years ago was my first time at the WEF. It was the time when the world was fighting COVID-19. It fought and won. Now the world is fighting against Putin. In three years, we will be discussing new challenges and threats in Davos. What will this mean? It will mean we will definitely overcome the current threat. The history re-reacts itself. At first, the world either feels to notice or underestimates a threat. Then it unites to resist it and then the world wins. Every time, the same outcome. The world overcame a thylism, the apathetic, the indifference to climate changes, financial crisis, and the criminal strain. The world will overcome again. This is how much can be said in a matter of minutes. This is how much can be understood in a matter of minutes. The world will overcome again. The time is high to make it happen faster. Slavo Grain. Mr. President, thank you so much for that moving address. Let me ask you a few questions. I know how impressed you are. Thank you in advance for this. Of course, let me extend my condolences. I think everybody in this audience has condolences for the terrible tragedy that took place in Ukraine. In November and December, the world watched with amazement as Ukrainian forces liberated one town and city after another. It seems now as though the war has moved into something that looks more like a stalemate. Can you tell us what the war looks like to you on the front lines right now? Thank you for the question. You know, Farid, thank you for your condolences, by the way. I think the war doesn't look good. It has not been good since the beginning and really in wintertime it slows down for known understandable reasons. Everyone gets tired, the nature, the people, and thanks God the enemy too. How it looks? It looks as follows. Daily artists fight in the east of our country. We are standing strongly, resolutely. I am thankful to all of our warriors. The living ones, the ones that we've unfortunately lost for the bravery, it's very important to know that we are strong. Not just in the east of our country, where it's really hot, but we are also strong inside the nation, inside our state. We are united, we are mobilized because we are motivated. It was not us who started the war, but it is us who will have to end it. End it on our land, having it deoccupied with due respect to our people and our sovereignty. As we've got other parts of our nation, the south, the north parts, we do control the situation and definitely the processes have slowed down a bit for a variety of reasons. It is not just about us keeping united inside the country, we need to have the whole world united around our joint values. And because of that, we truly need to continue that support of Ukraine, to continue with supplies of necessary ammunition that we require to get directed over the enemy on the battlefield. We also need the financial support of it. I'd like to thank all the nations of the European Union for the support of our budget deficit. And they're continuing to support us this year. I think it is really important that, you know, given the energy challenges that we are seeing, and these are surely related to disrespect of the humankind, you know, of the attacks against our grades against our energy sector with Iranian drones, with Russian missiles, in order to instill chaos inside the country. Because of that, we definitely need assistance from our partners with a different system. Lots of these, I know these are deficit, but I'd like to thank all many countries worldwide for their assistance, also with alternative energy connectivity solutions. From what it looks like now, Russia intends to get this revenge, and we think that they won't succeed because they're fighting not just Ukraine, but the whole civilized approach towards life. Thank you. Yesterday in Davos, Henry Kissinger suggested that while Ukraine must be supported, and in fact he came out in favor of Ukraine's membership in NATO, there must also be a dialogue with Russia, because Russia must be a part of global order. You know Russia very well, you speak Russian fluently. What are your thoughts on Russia's place in the world? I don't know the proper place for it. I think that Russia has already earned a place among terrorists, and this no longer depends on their leadership. No, I think the leaders are no longer affecting the development of Russian Federation, its culture and so on. Everything depends on the strength of Ukraine, its support by the partners, the political support from the world, as well as from the Russian society. They have to open their eyes if they want to see the future of the Russian Federation with their eyes. They will have to recognize their own mistakes, they will have to recognize their own statutes, and they will have to really respect our territorial integrity. I'm really glad to hear that Mr. Kissinger changed his mind. Our priority today, our political task today, is to see that different political leaders and staggers, those who are still very relevant or have been relevant until recently, for them to be able to recognize the great mistake that Putin committed, for them to recognize this is Russia's aggression. These moments, it is very important for them as well to politically pressure on Russia to stop this bloody aggression. As regards NATO, we clearly understand that security guarantees are among the top priorities for us. Speaking of our formal peace, it is among the top priorities. We don't understand that at the moment we are not in NATO yet, unfortunately Russia does understand this as well, and they do the damn it as to not make it easier for us to join. But we are on the way towards NATO because NATO is the best security guarantee for us, for our country, for our kids, for our country. So we have suggested security guarantees for our nation, and we think that the civilized world is going to support our proposals. Finally, Mr. President, the accident, the helicopter crash we think was an accident, we hope it was an accident, but it did raise in my mind, and it of course must have raised in your mind the question of your own safety. Do you feel that there are still ongoing active threats that are increasing? Do you worry about your own security every day? No, I'm not worried about that. I don't have anything to add here. Well, you said it once, you don't need a ride, you need ammunition, right? Nothing has changed, we still need ammunition. I'm not in haste to anything, to anywhere. Just to add with your permission, you said accidents. I'd like to tell you that because of the war experience that I have now, my society has now. This is not an accident because it has been due to war, and the war has many dimensions, not just on the battlefield. There are no accidents at war time. These are all war results. Absolutely. All those steps, everything happening, missiles striking our civilians, our kids being killed in kindergarten, at schools. Someone might try to bring information that it was us who had our own civilians at the crosshairs, and they were just wanted to hit some power block, and that just a mishap, this is different. Just empty words. Every individual, every death is a result of the war. Mr. President, thank you for your time. You've been very generous. Best of luck.