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1. Ukraine's Zelensky pleads for more weapons in address to Davos forum

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a video appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, appealing to world leaders and business executives for more help fighting Russia's invasion. "The supplying of Ukraine with air defense systems must outpace Russia's next missile attacks," Zelensky said. "The supplies of Western tanks must outpace the next invasion of Russian tanks." Zelensky started his address with a call for a minute of silence to honor Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and more than a dozen other people killed when a helicopter crashed near Kyiv. "Tragedies are outpacing life. The tyranny is outpacing democracy," he said. "The time the free world uses to think is used by the terrorist state to kill."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.