and what that means is for any business, be it a restaurant like mcdonald s or any factory. as soon as the air raid siren starts wailing, you hear it. you have to close the restaurants. you have to kindly ask all the customers to leave. you have to get your staff into safety down into a bunker if you have one, if not to the closest underground metro so that s the first thing about and that happens regularly almost every day. and then that s the first thing. and now since october, we ve seen the strikes on the infrastructure, on the electricity, on the distribution network. so what that means is many days the electricity is just cut off. so if you re running a restaurant, a factory, you need to have these generators, diesel generators, and they are behind the restaurants or behind the the factory and they keep the lights on so you can keep on working even when the grid has been has been cut. andy, you mentioned the horrendous human cost here. i m just wondering, how are your members cop
i think we ve seen phenomenal resilience of ukrainians on the front lines. i think we ve seen phenomenal unity of the western nations. i think with the support, i think the two factors, the ukrainian resilience and bravery will continue. i think with the united front of the western allies, i think it s possible that ukraine will win this war and will win this war this year. well, on that optimistic point, andy hunter, a real pleasure. always good to thank you, my friend. good luck. thank you. be safe and i ll definitely talk to you soon. thank you. the destruction of large swathes of the country has made it hard for the economy to function as well as it did before russia s invasion. and that means the government has had less tax money coming in and has become massively reliant on outside support. one of the biggest providers