earlier today i spoke with anna piazza, she's the world banks, vice president for europe and the central asia region. i asked her to put the new numbers in perspective for us. oh, thank you so much, steven, and thank you for having us. yeah, the yeah. we just came out with our bi annual report, which she looks at the entire european central asia region, but of course, the main headline is the forecast for ukraine, which indeed we forecast will have a g d p shrinkage of about 45 percent. and the reason for this is really that this war is having devastating impacts on ukraine. of course, the humanitarian toll is very high. but if you look at the, from an economic point of view, we are seeing, of course, the collapse in air domestic demand. we have seen businesses close. the black sea is about 50 percent of all exports in ukraine. go through the black sea. that's of course, right, not very difficult. and also what's important to keep in mind is that where the fighting is taking place. this where 50 percent of the g d. p of ukraine is pretty increase in this entire region of central, of cent

earlier today i spoke with anna piazza, she's the world banks.