The World Economic Forum is back in Davos and Ukraine is very much on the agenda; one of the country's MPs is there to warn that Russian fuel purchases are ultimately funding rape and murder in her homeland.
"I came to Davos via Berlin, it was not an easy day of conversations, but I am glad they are on board with an oil embargo at least, that gives me a tiny hope they are seriously considering a full gas embargo," she said.
"If you are paying Russian companies for their oil and gas you are giving them resources to continue destroying our towns, our villages, killing our children, raping our women, elderly, babies, toddlers and destroying our country."German Chancellor Olaf Sholz will address the WEF later in the week, one of 50 national leaders and heads of state among 2,500 delegates gathering in the Alps in the shadow of a security and economic crisis triggered by Russia's invasion.
There will be no Russian presence. The oligarchs who used to throw the most opulent parties here are banned, as are the companies and institutions of the Russian state. Alok Sharma, still the president of COP26, will address delegates and the US climate envoy John Kerry will share a platform with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua, a significant symbolic presence act if nothing else.
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