World Business Report

As shelling continues, defiant MPs gather in Kyiv


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With Russia's Ukraine invasion in its second week, fighting continues across the country. The Ukranian MP Kira Rudik tells us about the extraordinary parliamentary gathering which took place in Kyiv.
In Russia, martial law and a possible mandatory call-up for men of eligible age has been circulating wildly on social media in and around Russia itself. And people are leaving the country because of it. We hear from a small business owner Dmitry, who's travelled to Israel, leaving his family behind, rather than face financial ruin and possible conscription back home.
Also in the programme, Yuriy Vitrenko, chief executive of Ukraine's biggest energy company, Naftogaz, makes the case for the rest of the world to stop buying Russian oil and gas.
Plus, David Malpass from the World Bank tells us about the planned $350 million support package for Ukraine.
And, during the past two years of the coronavirus pandemic, we've all experiences some aspects of the fragility exposed in a previously smooth global supply chain. Will the conflict in Ukraine add to that fragility? Craig Fuller the CEO of FreightWaves explains.
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