us about the state of the economy more broadly? well, all of these figures are worse than economists had expected, this is supposedly the biggest time for retailers in december, and it will make many of them really feel like there is a particularly tough time ahead. they show us that while people are spending more money, many people are really at the limit of what they can afford to buy and what they would choose to spend their money on, really making choices on those nonessential items, and that shows us the impact that inflation at 10.5% is already having on many, many people s lives, with prices still rising, as the year goes on. hannah miller. president zelensky has called on countries to provide ukraine with tanks and other advanced weapons as a matter of urgency, at a meeting of more than 50 allies at a us airbase in germany. before mr zelensky s video address, the us defence secretary,
half was intercepted. imagine if we had the most sophisticated western origin air defense and anti-missile systems we re demanding from our partners. if we have them, we have much more. not 100%. but it is probably impossible for 100%. but zaefldefinitely much more. and less ukrainians will be killed or wounded. so my president is asking for each and every leader, we re thanking the international community for reacing to quickly. we have the reaction from g-7 last week and from the general assembly and we had a very important ramstein meeting, the sixth one from i m not mistaken and the nato where they discussed concrete, sophisticated pieces of air defense system which bo be immediately supplied to ukraine. igor, thank you so much for coming on. thank you.