On February 16, 2019, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and Yalta European Strategy (YES) held the 3^rdUkrainian Lunch in Munich, titled “Ukraine 2019 – Choices Ahead”, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference. It focused on the challenges ahead of Ukraine in a year of presidential and parliamentary elections.

Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia, Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Kurt Volker, U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, and Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, were among the speakers. The event featured contributions from two Ukrainian presidential candidates, Yulia Tymoshenko, Leader of the political party Batkivshchyna, and Anatoliy Grytsenko, Leader of the Civic Position party. Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and member of the YES board, Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, also spoke at the event, as well as Ben Hodges, Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe (2014-2017), Anders Samuelsen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, and U.S. Senators Bob Casey, member of Democratic Party and Roger Wicker, member of Republican Party. Stephen Sackur, Presenter of HARDtalk on BBC World News moderated the debate.