Dear professors, dear researchers, students, colleagues, on behalf of the School of Business,

Economics and Society of the Fritidsh Alexander University, Ilan Genurbryk and the Pact for

Ukraine project, welcome to our first webinar in a series titled Ukraine's economy during the war.

Webinars are organized in close collaboration with Ukrainian universities and today's agenda

includes two interrelated presentations. Let me introduce our speakers. The topic of

Dr. Anton Nanavov of the Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University's presentation is economic

and... Good evening. Sorry. Good evening, everyone. I'm just greeting our colleagues.

The topic is economic consequences of the war against Ukraine and the topic of Professor Dr.

Christian Merkel is economic repercussions of the war against Ukraine in Germany.

We are thankful to our speakers for their readiness to share your issues and their ideas,

opinions with our guests, with the representatives of scientific communities of Ukraine and Germany.

Today we have with us guests from different Ukrainians and German universities.

And following the presentations, our guests will have the opportunity to ask questions.

So if you have questions, please write to chat and then we will

discuss all questions with our speakers. So the first presentation from Anton Nanavov,

the floor is yours. And now I will share my screen with your presentation.

Okay, Katya, the only concern is it doesn't matter how rapidly you will change the slides,

but just do it at your decision when you see it appropriate.

I have only five or six slides, something like that. So,

so first of all, I'm very grateful for the chance to have a floor tonight.

And I'm very much honored that we are speaking about Ukrainian problems and

the current economic situation in my country. I beg my pardon for the quality of the video.

I was hoping to be at my office right now, but unfortunately we are experiencing some

electricity problems in Ukraine. As far as it's to some relation, it's closely connected to

economic situation. Just for your better perception, we have something like six or eight hours per day

during the light day. This is the whole quantity of hours that we normally are having.

Central electricity all the rest of time, we need to supply ourselves with generators or some

other types. And right now to have a chance to join you, I had to go to the closest cafe.

And unfortunately, they are not having Wi-Fi. So, these problems may seem strange for you in 2023,

but unfortunately it's the current situation of things in my country right now.

But not to focus on these pieces, let's start from the first slide. First of all,

what is the most threatening for Ukraine? And it will definitely affect the future of my country and

the future of Ukrainian economy is the fact that we are constantly losing lives.

And this is a horrible thing. It's not an easy to comprehend. And I deliberately put these figures

not to shock you, but just for your understanding, the scope of this disaster. Figures that you are

having right now with this slide are the smallest possible figures. Those are determined cases

that were identified by United Nations, by United States, European Union ambassadors,

and some legal companies, private institutions that are collecting this data about

murders of Russian troops as they commit in Ukraine. So, just to understand the,

let's say, the range of these figures, 6,884 people are murdered by Russian troops. And we have

175 girls under 16 years old and 216 young boys under 16 years old. And gender of 38 children

is not determined right now, utterly disfigured. It's just to understand what is happening right

now in Ukraine. And we are not speaking about, we will definitely speak about GDP inflation,

devaluation of national currency. But this is probably the most burning thing in Ukraine right

now. And they keep on killing Ukrainians right now when we are having this discussion. 10,947

are wounded. And once again, this is the lowest possible figure because even United Nations are

saying that probably actual figures are higher, 2.5 or three times or even four times. Could you

please move to next slide? Okay. Another big problem for Ukraine right now, and this will

definitely affect our future, definitely after our inevitable victory, we will have to seek the

solution for admitting those people back to Ukraine because the smallest estimation of refuges