our correspond, emily, sherwin is in dev olson joins us now from there. emily ukraine's president vladimir zalinski is due to redress the leaders gathered there in davos. what are they expecting from him? well, so, and he will be addressing a really influential audience today here and voice, you know, with over 50 heads of government and attendance, 2500 delegates from you know, business and joe's all sorts of decision makers as it were. and of course, that has a practical aspect for zelinski, who i think will be calling for the world to unite behind ukraine, even as the war still drags on. he may also call for russia to release 22000000 tons of grain which are currently stuck in ukrainian ports because of this war. and i think you'll be really calling for the world to come together. zelinski, of course, in the past has made passionate speeches to various parliaments, and usually you kind of tailors his messages to his audience. so it will be interesting to see what he says today in the past. for example, when he was addressing, addressing the u. k. parlia

oh, joining me in the studio is aaron tilton and in divorce we have emily, sherwin who's covering this and has been listening to that speech along side as so we go the 1st you, emily, your impressions of blog news lansky is addressed to the world economic form well, he basically said that the world now is at a turning point when it has been faced with these russian war crimes. and essentially he said that the instant, the international institutions that exist at the moment really aren't kind of good enough for that. they have to work on not only responding to challenges, but actually to preventing them and he kind of actually leveled quite a few accusations. i think at the international community assembled here in diverse saying that essentially.

what now did elias emily, sherwin is the word economic forum in dub. was emily, a striking opening there, a reference there from presidency lensky to the russia war crimes house at dallas? tell us more about that. well, there used to be here at the world economic forum, you know, a huge russian presence with the russia house. as you just mentioned, russia was known for these kind of notorious glitzy parties where the vodka flowed, there was caviar, they even ones hosted a skating show. this year. however, the world economic forum has completely cut ties with russia and all russian businessmen. there isn't one russian delegate here today, and instead the russia house has been turned into of russia, war crimes house. and there's this rather visceral and emotional, you know, display of photos and videos of from ukraine and of the suffering that civilians are going through their, in ukraine at the hands of russian soldiers. now apart from that pretty graphic image show what was some of the landscape key messages to the global elite? why think he was really

uh, we have emily, sherwin who's covering this and has been listening to that speech along side or so we go to 1st you emily, your impressions of blog news. zalinski is addressed to the world economic form. well, he basically said that the world now is at a turning point when it has been faced with these russian war crimes. and essentially he said that the incident in the international institutions that exist at the moment really aren't kind of good enough for that. they have to work on not only responding to challenges, but actually to preventing them and he kind of actually leveled quite a few accusations. i think at the international community assembled here in divorce saying that essentially what they're doing now, you know, the unity that we're seeing from the west, you know, faced with this ukranian war isn't really enough and that they should have done more earlier. so that this is kind of too little too late. that essentially he pointed out, you know, back in 2014, this war already started. there should have been a harsher sanctions and he called for harsher sanctions as well.

steel mills and mario paul, which are now out of operation because they've been destroyed d w, as emily sherwin met up with her at the rolled economic forum in davos i was kind of paralyzed there, few days after the war started and then i did 2, thanks the 1st swan, i just accepted what happened and said, okay, i have nothing at all. i have no home. i have nothing, no work for example. i am out of my jaw, and then ah, i realized they have myself. and that's what really a made me start over a start again and come over of every scene. so and then we try to do whatever, but we can for all employees and to give them job and to pay them salaries. speaking of the destruction that the war has caused 2 of your r steel plants in my to you, but we're actually disc destroyed by russian cell shelling, including the as of stall steel plant, which, you know, has been in the headlines. um so much how do you deal with the emotional shock of that kind of thing and how do you get over it from a business perspective as well? oh oh, it can not kind of deal with it in any way which is ah, we just have to leave ah,

now, by emily, sherwin who was a moscow correspond before the up, you had to close its office there. emily, what stood out to you in putin's address, well, put in was essentially saying that russia is facing a coordinated information war as he was calling it by foreign governments. he didn't mention which governments, but we can only assume that he means the west in general, presumably also ukraine. he mentioned that sanctions have had an effect on russia's ability to access id technology. but he took a very defiant stance as usual. he said that russia has been preparing for this for years and that they now need to do. they do need to do more to protect their government systems, websites and essential infrastructure. but they still plan to switch to only home grown hardware and software when it comes to protecting of russia. he said by 2025 . and it's also an information that he started when he launched his invasion of ukraine. he would disagree i'm. i'm sure he would, does russia have enough homegrown talent through and technology to taught the use of foreign i to look, it's been an,

earlier i spoke to d w's, emily sherwin who is endorsed for us, and i discussed with her the gratitude, but also the criticism from the ukrainian president. well, zalinski received a standing ovation, but you're right. his tone was critical of the international community. he essentially was saying, yes, thank you for a uniting and backing ukraine in the face of russian aggression. but essentially, you should have done this much earlier. he pointed out, you know, that of russia annexed the crimean peninsula from ukraine, back in 2014. there's been a war going on there in the country since then, and the, the international community, including here in douglas, didn't really do anything. you know, there was a russian presence here until this year at the forum as well. people were trading doing business and he was saying, you know, this and it's too late. you should have done something earlier. and the same thing applied to international institutions. he was saying that they should be almost reformed in order to not only respond to crises, but to actually prevent them. and he also proposed

sherwin. both have worked in our russia bureau, which of course was shut down by moscow just before it launched its invasion of ukraine. let's start with you. emily. i ukraine's president vladimir zalinski is due to address the leaders gathered there in double. so what are they expecting from him? while president, when he will be addressing really influential audience here in doubles today, over 50 heads of government will be here in attendance just under 2500 delegates. participants from business from n g o is from all sort of sorts of areas will be here as well. and it's expected that he will most likely, you know, call for the world which is assembled here and devils to unite behind ukraine as the war. there continues to drag on, he may also call on russia to release 22000000 tons of grain which are currently stuck in ukrainian ports in which are worsening. the looming food crisis in the world, which is also said to be discussed here in diverse and you know, the landscape has made passionate speeches to parliament across the world before he often kind of paler as his messages to the country or to the audience that he's speaking to, for example