Every serviceman has their own reasons for defending Ukraine on the battlefield; my motivation is that most Ukrainian people survive and could continue living here, said Masi Nayem, founder of the Miller Law Firm and serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine when delivering a speech at the annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) "The Future Is Being Decided in Ukraine", organized by YES in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Current international law makes it difficult to hold the leadership of the aggressor country accountable for launching an aggressive war against Ukraine, stated Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, at the Annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) “The Future is Being Decided In Ukraine”, organized by YES in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Courage, resilience, and determination of the Ukrainian military exceeded all possible expectations, emphasized General David Petraeus, Partner and Head of KKR and KKR Global Institute, at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting “The Future is Being Decided in Ukraine”, organised by YES in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
The world needs to prove that the values of democracy and freedom are working, and for that, they must protect Ukraine until the very last Russian soldier has left Ukrainian soil.
The issue of protecting human rights and freedoms is a key one in the 21st century, and the global community needs to use all available tools to address it.
Our goal is to preserve independent Ukraine and give our children the opportunity to choose their future, said Denys Zaikov, Assistant Chief of Section S-2, 25th Independent Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when answering the question about what he was fighting for at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting “The Future is Being Decided in Ukraine”, organized by YES in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
The highest priority for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine is our warriors, their lives, safety and dignity. These are the principles Ukraine is building on when developing a new philosophy of attitude towards the military.
Ukraine continues to unite the world around the peace formula of President Volodymyr Zelensky, noted the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, at the annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) The Future is Being Decided In Ukraine, organized by YES in partnership with the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation.
The results of Russia’s war against Ukraine will be decisive not only for neighboring countries in the region, but also for the whole world. That was stated by Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University Senior Fellow at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting “The Future is Being Decided in Ukraine”, organised by YES in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.