It is still called the Yalta European Strategy Meeting. But this year, the annual international forum on Ukraine and and the world is taking place in Kyiv, not Yalta. That is because Yalta is now in Crimea, which has been annexed by Russia. To judge from the mood of the conference, nobody expects Crimea to return to Ukraine anytime soon. On the contrary, on Saturday morning Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Ukrainian prime minister, warned the conference that Vladimir Putin’s goal is “to take the entire Ukraine”.
Financial Times: From Yata to Kyiv
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during the 11th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES), Sept. 12, 2014
