Olena Zelenska will speak to government officials, corporate titans, academics and activists in the snowy Swiss town.
UKRAINE’S FIRST LADY is giving a rare international address as the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in the Swiss town of Davos gets into full swing.
The Covid-19 pandemic torpedoed the snow-covered event each of the last two years but a springtime version was held eight months ago. Adding to the gloom are an economic slowdown and a warming world, with the week-long event of big ideas and backroom deal-making prioritising such problems but never making clear how much concrete action emerges to help reach the forum’s stated ambition of “improving the state of the world”.
Markus Schreiber A police officer stands on the roof of a hotel and monitore the area with a binocular in Davos yesterday. Markus Schreiber Zelenska’s speech will come after she told CNN through an interpreter on Sunday that despite Russia missile strikes that have pounded Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian areas in recent months, “we understand that upon carrying on for a year, we are capable of persevering for even longer”.
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