EU member states and Ukraine should prepare scenarios for different options vis-a- vis the US. Europe must step up its defense capabilities and be able to support those of Ukraine.

This was stated by Natalie Jaresko, KSF Security Council Member, Chairperson of the Aspen Institute Kyiv Supervisory Board, Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2014- 2016), in her online presentation at the 17 th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “UA: UNITE AGAIN TO DEFEAT THE GLOBAL AGGRESSOR”, organized by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation “Open Ukraine”.

“I do not think that Ukraine has been abandoned by the United States or that the United States dropped its transatlantic alliance... All this is not foreseeable. What is important for Ukraine? To get ready for this,” she said.

According to Natalie Jaresko, getting ready for this eventuality is of equal importance to the EU member states, so various appropriate scenarios should be in place.

The Chairperson of the Aspen Institute Kyiv Supervisory Board noted that Europe will strengthen its defense capabilities, and accordingly, will be able to step up its assistance to Ukraine “for defense, protection and safeguard of the whole continent.”

She clarified that there was nothing wrong with fatigue, and that “the Europeans wake up.”

The Kyiv Security Forum, founded by Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s “Open Ukraine” foundation, is the main platform of our state for discussing the problems of war and peace, national and world security.