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12.02.2025
YES and Victor Pinchuk Foundation to Host the 8th Ukrainian Lunch on the Margins of the Munich Security Conference
On 15 February 2025, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference, Yalta European Strategy (YES) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will host the 8th Munich Ukrainian Lunch, titled YOUR COUNTRY FIRST — WIN WITH US.
The discussion during the Munich Ukrainian lunch will focus on how Ukraine can prevail in the face of escalating risks, with an emphasis on the impact of three years of defense, the shifting global context, and the potential strategic changes in the US administration. It will explore what solutions are possible and what an acceptable outcome for Ukraine, Europe, the West, and the world might look like.
Among the participants of the Munich Ukrainian Lunch will be Gen. Keith Kellogg, US Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Alar Karis, President of the Republic of Estonia, Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark, Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Richard Grenell, Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, Christian Freuding, Director of the Joint Planning and Command Staff, Head of the Situation Center Ukraine, Federal Ministry of Defence; Wolfgang Ischinger, Head of the Foundation Council, Munich Security Conference; David Petraeus, Partner at KKR and Chairman of the Global Institute and other distinguished guests will contribute to the discussion.
The discussion will be moderated by Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist.
On 15 February at 13:30 (GMT+1), watch the online streaming of the Munich Ukrainian Lunch on the YouTube channel of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
For the eighth time, the Munich Ukrainian Lunch will serve as a platform for global and Ukrainian decision-makers to discuss Ukraine’s security and its implications for Europe and the international order. Among speakers in previous years have been Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden Ulf Kristersson, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland, Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Finland (2019-2023) Sanna Marin, as well as experts like David Petraeus, Robert Gates, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Anne Applebaum, James Mattis and others.
Over the past six decades, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has become the major global forum for the discussion of security policy. Each February, it brings together more than 500 senior decision-makers from around the world, including heads-of-state, ministers, leading personalities of international and non-governmental organizations, as well as high-ranking representatives of industry, media, academia, and civil society, to engage in an intensive debate on current and future security challenges.
