Nestled amid the green Crimean hills, lapped by the Black Sea’s languid waves, Yalta’s battle-scarred appearance in February 1945 prompted Winston Churchill to call it “the Riviera of Hades.” It still has the faint aura of a seaside resort for secret policemen.
The Yalta conference in Crimea, Ukraine, left a clear feeling of a geopolitical shift in Europe. Not the one 68 years ago at this Black Sea resort but the annual Yalta European Strategy conference organised last weekend by Ukrainian philanthropist Victor Pinchuk with the participation of Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Karl Bildt, Stefan Fule and many other European and global leaders and opinion makers.
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, YES Annual Meeting 2022 “Ukraine: Defending all Our Freedom”
«This is not a war only between Ukraine and Russia – It is a confrontation between civilization and medieval barbarism. We are observing that civilization, despite its values, cannot prevent wars in the world»