What to expect from Ukraine in 2022

While the world focuses on Russia’s military buildup along Ukraine’s borders, domestic developments in Kyiv seem to be backtracking. One of President Zelenskyy’s political rivals, former president Petro Poroshenko, has been charged with treason. The National Security and Defense Council is assembling a list of the country’s wealthiest individuals to sanction under Zelenskyy’s controversial “anti-oligarch” law. The selection competition for the new head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office was cancelled at the eleventh hour. Simultaneously, there are also some promising trends too, like the ongoing judicial reform or the adoption of the new National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine law.

Where is Ukraine heading in 2022 and why? How can Ukraine continue its democratic trajectory as it faces the Russian threat along its borders and infighting at home? With Ukraine’s post-2014 reforms increasingly under threat, how can the West best support its partners in Kyiv?

Ambassador John Herbst, senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, Kira Rudik, head of the Holos party in the Verkhovna Rada, and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former prime minister of Ukraine and head of the Open Ukraine Foundation, join to discuss what may lie ahead for Ukraine in 2022. Melinda Haring, deputy director of the Eurasia Center, moderates.

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[lubakaczmar]

"Yaz is our man" Victoria Newland

[louisecorchevolle]

"Yats" the Priminister nominated by Victoria Nuland

[bernie]

Totally agree ! don't allow electronic voting !! too much danger of meddling

[gregtwomey]

The Prime Minister said Putin has been silent. But Putin has said publicly that Russia won't invade. Whether we believe that is another matter.

[robheusd]

What interests has the "Atlantic Council" on the future of EurAsia? (Except for sabotaging the prospect of more eurasian integration, because this economic development project (Belt and Road Initiative) is a direct contender to US hegemony.) US does not even allow Germany to open the newly built Norstream 2 pipeline to deliver gas to europe, and resolving the outstanding energy issue with soaring prices. The "military buildup" issue is a full distraction from the real issue, which is the energy crisis, caused by US/EU politics which didn't make longterm contract for Russian gas deliveries, while europe can't get sufficient amount of natural gas from elsewhere. Our own gas field in Groningen (where I live) stopped producing gas due to earthquakes. Germany now demands more gas from the Netherlands. People are protesting against re-opening those gasfields. Germany just needs to open the Nordstream II pipeline, and this problems are solved. In the long run, we indeed need to get away from fossil fuels, but building infrastructure to replace natural gas entirely or mostly costs at least 30 years. In the meantime, countries like Ukrain are dependend on russian gas. They should have already started phasing out gas, by isolating buildings to reduce gas consumption and renovate their energy structure. Ukrain mismamanaged their own energy sector, and now they are in deep shit. It is not Russia to blame for it, but their own oligarch elites who pocketed the gas profits into their own pockets, instead of investing it in energy sector to reduce gas usage and to repair leaking pipelines, etc. The Donbass issue can be resolved only when Ukrain lives up to the Minsk agreement and stops shelling the citizins there, and grant that region and other regions with large minorities of ethnic russians local autonomy. Russia is not a security threat to NATO, instead NATO - against promises made by NATO countries in 1991 - is expanding more and more eastward. They are a threat to Russia and to world peace. Russia draws a red line there....No further NATO expansion! NATO has already planned incorporating Ukrain and Georgia into NATO back in 2008... These plans will fail. NATO is obsolete and a liaiblity, it doesn't improve the security situation in the world. The failures of the NATO/US operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya are proof of that. It's the end of US hegemony, we live in a multipolar world.

[Ludvik]

maybe Zelinsky is working to Israel, and Russia has a agreement with Israel.

[lubakaczmar]

Debt equity swaps IMF. Oligarchs off to Panama

[ferkozhaluva]

Hi Melinda, not sure about who's in charge of endorsing people to these online AC events, but please, do a thorough background check before inviting someone from Ukraine: especially someone with pre-2014 political records on file, because quite often these records shed the wrong light on everything they do and everywhere they go. Most of them had "to work hard" to have their cases put on halt, in order they could get some new jobs in 5+ years, in new govt. and automatically gain "a new name"... so as you can see, our courts are still not good enough. Please do care about online reputation of Atlantic Council (maybe, even more than our govt currently does) because your channel is still one of those, who can help distinguish things in all the shades of grey. I wish you a good luck and crystal mind in this hard work. Thank you, for your time and efforts.

[albertoperin]

Seems incredibly that in front of such a treat Zielinski is caring about its political appreciation. I don't think is a nice way to go into a war

[rusarmysambo]

Lol what a lame interview with yatsenuk