YES is pleased to announce that @MarinSanna, Prime Minister of Finland (2019–2023), has joined the YES Board. Appointed at the age of 34, Ms. Marin served as the youngest Prime Minister of the world when taking office in 2019. Having led her country through the global pandemic
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- Czech President @general_pavel “Air defence, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, whatever we can deliver, is needed now in a short term. So the more air defence assets we deliver to 🇺🇦right now, the better.” #MSC2023 Ukrainian Lunch
- Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (95-05), Chairman of the YES Board concluded: “Sometimes the unbelievable can be true. When we spoke last year we didn’t expect full scale war. When the war started, we didn’t believe Ukraine would be that strong and that effective.
- Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark, called for ramping up defence output in Europe: “The most important thing for me, personally, is to give Ukrainians what they need to win this war.”#MunichUkrainianLunch #WinWithUA #MSC2025
- “My message to millions of Ukrainians is that we are fighting for families like yours. When they come back, they will come back to Ukraine, not to the USSR, but to an independent Ukraine” - @ZelenskyyUa #YES2023 #VictorPinchukFoundation
- On February 24, 2023, on the 1st anniversary of Ukraine’s resistance to the full-scale invasion of #Russia, @yes_ukraine and @PinchukFund held an informal #YES gathering: #OneYearStayInTheFight #StandWithUkraine #RussianWarCrimes #Ukraine #Kyiv #war
- This week, September 9 - 11, the world’s most acclaimed thinkers will be meeting in #Kyiv for the @yes_ukraine Brainstorming meeting to discuss key global risks and their implications for #Ukraine, while creating and testing new ideas bit.ly/3jxzQok
- "We need Germany to stand tall and lead" - @harari_yuval addressed Germany during an online conversation “The War in Ukraine and the Future of the World” organized by YES. Watch the discussion following the link youtube.com/watch?v=wCjBki… #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine
00:00 - “The Ukrainian morale is the same we had in 2014. Our spirit is unbreakable. We prove this everyday. Both our soldiers, headquarters the same. This resilience is our strength” Hannah Maliar #YES2023 #VictorPinchukFoundation
- “Ukraine is now at the centre of history, by which I mean the war in Ukraine is the most consequential in human history. The future of the entire democratic world depends on Ukraine's victory in the war against Russian aggression” – Victor Pinchuk #YES2023
- We're pleased to announce that the @YES_ukraine Brainstorming meeting will take place in #Kyiv on September 9–11. Save the date for crucial dialogue between the world’s most acclaimed thinkers and leaders on the future of Ukraine and the world beyond bit.ly/3jxzQok
- “No, we have not seen one of these supposed Russian superweapons. T14s, T90s, are burning. Everything is burning, There are no unbeatable weapons here” - Kyrylo Budanov #YES2023 #VictorPinchukFoundation
- “Ukrainian history is fascinating, not because it is Ukrainian history but because it can present you with everything. Europe, wars, insurrections, rebellions, literature, poetry. Through the perspective of Ukrainian history, you can see the whole world” @TimothyDSnyder #YES2023













