The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is an international, private, non-partisan, philanthropic foundation. The Foundation was established in 2006 by Victor Pinchuk.
Bono is in Kyiv!
«I’m grateful to my friend Bono
@U2
for coming to Kyiv to support Ukrainians in the fight with russists! Such support is more important than ever!» - said Victor Pinchuk.
.
@ngumenyuk
, moderator of the panel discussion, was joined by Metropolitan Epiphanius, Head, Orthodox Church of Ukraine;
@gustafgothberg
and
@avalaina
came together to discuss “Democracy, Corruption, Unity — Ukrainian Realities vs. Appearances” during the YES meeting in Kyiv on
Victor Pinchuk welcomes guests saying: "We have a unique chance together, for the first time in history all the civilized world supports us. That is why 2023 will be a victorious year."
#UkraineisYouDavos
#RussianWarCrimes
The Russian House in Davos this year will be the Russian War Crimes House. This project will present evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Its aim is to share facts, faces, names and dates and provide at least some of the victims a platform to tell their story.
#WEF2022
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation will Host Multiple Ukrainian Events in Davos this year. As well as our traditional Ukrainian Breakfast Discussion, the foundation will present the Russia War Crimes House, and again co-organize the Ukraine House Davos. More @
Watch this morning's Davos Ukrainian Breakfast discussion: “The future of Ukraine, Europe and world, in the context of the war.” With special guests...
Watch online the 5th Ukrainian Lunch in Munich “Europe's Security is Decided in Ukraine” organized on the margins of the Munich Security Conference by Victor Pinchuk Foundation &
@yes_ukraine
. February 19 at 13:30 (GMT+1) at
#MSC2022
.
@carlbildt
: "The support is stronger and more united than anyone initially expected. The amount of money and military hardware is far more than anyone thought one year ago. The next thing is to look at a long term sustainable plan."
#UkraineisYouDavos
#WEF
In the
#UkraineHouseDavos
the
#PinchukArtCentre
presents artworks by the new generation of Ukrainian artists: Sasha Averbakh, Nikolai Karabinovich, Lesia Khomenko - to demonstrate to the global leaders the new Ukraine and to provoke thought and discussion beyond the discourse.
On February 19 on the margins of the Munich Security Conference,
@yes_ukraine
& the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will host the 5th Munich Ukrainian Lunch, titled “Europe's Security is Decided in Ukraine.
#MSC2022
On May 25 at 7.30 CET, together with EastOne we will host the Davos Ukrainian Breakfast Discussion, “Where is the war going, and what will the future of Ukraine and the world look like after the war?”
Watch it here:
#Davos2022
#DavosUkrainianBreakfast
"Putin has not yet made a decision to invade. Deterrence are still working. I think Putin is constrained by the direct costs of the invasion itself"
@ARVershbow
during a roundtable discussion by Victor Pinchuk Foundation
@yes_ukraine
@ACEurasia
On January 23, 2020, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and EastOne Group will hold the annual Davos Ukrainian Breakfast, organized at the occasion of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. Leaders from around the world will attend the event.
#WEF2020
#PinchukFoundation
“The dilemma is quite simple, limit the war in Ukraine or you, we and all humankind will have to fight global conflict later” – Victor Pinchuk,
#YES2023
#VictorPinchukFoundation
.
@StefanishynaO
stated that
@MSConf
has brought Ukraine back on top of the international agenda: “We are now the front runner when it comes to EU membership and NATO. We don’t accept any delays or forgive political failure. We are doing our job, and learning to live within
Visiting our UKRAINE IS YOU project at Promenade 59 today with Victor Pinchuk is Father Patrick Desbois, a great champion of shedding light on genocide and war crimes past and present and holding those responsible to account.
@desbois_patrick
#UkraineIsYouDavos
#RussianWarCrimes
“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
#UHGI
is a three-year long endeavour involving scholars from around the world and covering multiple disciplines, starting from the prehistory of the lands of Ukraine and arriving at the present. A recording of the launch is available here: .
We are proud to launch the "Ukrainian History Global Initiative" – a brand new project that will rethink Ukrainian history in the global context.
#UHGI
was introduced to guests and journalists at an exclusive event at the British Museum on Monday 27 Nov.
On January 20-24, 2020, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation – together with its partners WNISEF, Horizon Capital and UVCA - organises for the third consecutive time the Ukraine House in Davos during the World Economic Forum.
#VictorPinchuckFoundation
#WEF20
#UkraineHouseDavos
In addition to the
#UkraineIsYouDavos
project, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will host the Ukrainian Breakfast on 19 Jan, a traditional private event organised at the Annual Meeting of the
@wef
. The Foundation is again co-organising the
@UKRHouseDavos
at Promenade 59.
#Davos2023
Last year,
#Russia
started a large-scale
#war
in
#Ukraine
.
This year, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Russian invasion, the Fund and
@yes_ukraine
opened the exhibition "Russian War Crimes."
At 3:40 a.m. — the time when invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022.
.
@njaresko
takes the floor and says that
#Ukraine
will rebuild and leapfrog to being a green country, leaving behind
#Soviet
infrastructure and becoming a hub for exporting not only food but value-added services to the world
#DavidRubenstein
takes the floor and says 'We are all
#Ukrainian
now' to a round of applause. He recalls what
#Hitler
did in the run-up to WWII, says the
#West
flinched and let him take some land in the hope that would stop him, It didn't and he killed 6mn Jews - we need to learn
Our new project for
#Davos2023
- UKRAINE IS YOU - invites guests to be Ukrainian for a moment, while warning that what is happening to Ukraine is equally a threat to others. The project opens on 17 Jan, 9.30am at Promenade 59. For more:
#UkraineIsYouDavos
Jeff Koons’ Balloon Monkey (Magenta), presented by Victor and Olena Pinchuk, sold at Christie’s. $ 11.5 million of raised funds to be directed to humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
The first panel “Battlefield: Is the Tide against Ukraine?” of the YES meeting in Kyiv on the occasion of the second anniversary of Ukraine’s resistance to the full-scale invasion of Russia, moderated by
@carlbildt
, speakers discussed the future of Ukraine in its fight for life
Speakers including
@RepDonDavis
,
@alexsobel
,
@AndriusKubilius
and
@T_Tasheva
came together to discuss “Is It Impossible to isolate Russia?” at the YES meeting in Kyiv on February 2024 on the occasion of the second anniversary of Ukraine’s resistance to the full-scale invasion of
#RussianWarCrimesHouse
exhibition at
@NATO
HQ features "An incomplete map of Russian war crimes in Ukraine" as of 27 June 2022, as well as a video project by Oleksiy Sai, which begins with a statement by Ukrainian President
@ZelenskyyUa
Appeasement doesn't work. When someone takes land that isn't theirs, kills people in other countries, we cannot flinch. They will just take more. We must stop
#Putin
. Go back and do something, make sure you have something to say when your children ask what you did to stop
#Putin
Victor Pinchuk: “In 2022 everyone underestimated Ukraine, in 2023 everyone underestimated our enemy. We need our Western partners to understand that 2024 is the moment of truth. This is our victory.”
#stayinthefight
Open 23-26 May, the exhibition is organised by Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre, in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, online media Ukrainska Pravda and the UAPP.
#WEF2022
Plokhii: "When asked what Ukrainians are fighting for they say “freedom”. This is a very different notion of the Ukrainian nation that was formed by the war and will remain victorious."
#UkraineisYouDavos
Yesterday, on Ukraine’s Independence Day, the
#RussianWarCrime
exhibition was unveiled for the ninth time, now in Bratislava. The project documents Russian crimes against Ukrainians, aiming to draw global attention to the ongoing genocide.
Victor Pinchuk Foundation in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and PinchukArtCentre opened Russian War Crimes Exhibition at the UK Parliament
#RWCELondon
Plokhii: "Putin comes to Ukraine with idea that language = culture & culture = loyalty to Russia. He faces a different reality with Ukraine surviving in 2014, and is surviving today. It is a completely different reality to what he defined."
#UkraineisYouDavos
Russia’s genocide against Ukrainians: As Ukrainian Jew, I appeal to Israel to do maximum to save lives. Victor Pinchuk
@ZelenskyyUa
mtg with leaders of world Jewish communities &
@babynyarhmc
board.
The official opening of the
#RussianWarCrimesHouse
#Davos2022
begins 9.30am CET tomorrow. You can watch it live here:
Speakers include Victor Pinchuk,
@AndriyYermak
, Liudmyla Denisova, Oksana Kyrsanova, Anatolii Fedoruk, Bjorn Geldhof and Ivan Fedorov.
Marie Yovanovitch, former US ambassador to Ukraine: "We need to support Ukraine by deploying deterrents, but also by deploying diplomacy". During a roundtable discussion by Victor Pinchuk Foundation
@yes_ukraine
@ACEurasia
First Lady of Ukraine
@olenazelenskaua
takes to the stage to discuss “Ukraine at Peace – What we Strive For” in an intimate conversation with Borys Gudziak, Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainian Catholics
#UkraineisYouDavos
#RussianWarCrimes
#WEF
On 24 February 2024, on the second anniversary of Ukraine’s resistance to the full-scale invasion of Russia, Yalta European Strategy (
@yes_ukraine
) and Victor Pinchuk Foundation
@PinchukFund
held the YES meeting in Kyiv – Two Years – Stay in the Fight. A group of Ukrainians and
The official opening of the
#RussinWarCrimesHouse
#Davos2022
will begin 9.30am CET on 23.05.22 and be LIVESTREAMED here:
Speakers include Victor Pinchuk,
@AndriyYermak
, Liudmyla Denisova, Oksana Kyrsanova, Anatolii Fedoruk, Bjorn Geldhof and Ivan Fedorov.
In a conversation with
@PlJonson
during the YES meeting in Kyiv on the occasion of the second anniversary of Ukraine’s resistance to the full-scale invasion of Russia,
@carlbildt
asked what support Sweden is providing Ukraine: “Our combined value of Sweden’s military assistance
"The victory of Ukraine looks like a stable, sovereign and free Ukraine with political control to make its own choices to move forward as a nation”
@MikePompeo
. Public Discussion “US Support For Ukraine - What Must Be Done and Why It Matters”
#YES
#VictorPinchukFoundation
Borys Gudziak: "What has been left when the empires fell apart? The Mongol, Ottoman, British empires fell apart. But the Russian empire didn’t, it splintered. In Russia the idea of the empire is deep within their culture."
#UkraineisYouDavos
#RussianWarCrimes
WATCH LIVE: Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, will deliver her speech
@wef
today at 4.30pm CET on ‘Ukraine at Peace – What We Strive For’.
@ZelenskaUA
will be joined by Borys Gudziak and The Economist’s
@zannymb
. Livestream link:
#UkraineIsYouDavos
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation will present its new project – UKRAINE IS YOU – at the upcoming
#WEF
in
@Davos
. Organised by
@PinchukFund
and the PinchukArtCentre in cooperation with the Office of the President of Ukraine,
#UkraineIsYouDavos
will run from 17-19 January.
#Davos2023
Victor Pinchuk on Russia’s recent attacks and what the West must do?
If our Western partners didn’t help close Ukrainian skies at the beginning of the war, then now they simply MUST give powerful air defense.
"The moral war is being waged against the rest of the world. We have no right to be fatigued or be tired. The international community has provided us with so much support so far, don't stop now. You either do everything or nothing."
@olenazelenskaua
#UkraineisYouDavos
#WEF
.
@IvanFedorovUA
, Mayor of Melitopol:“My town has turned into the largest prison in the world. Our citizens are deprived of freedom. It isn't just our cities, homes or lands, it is our people. We need to do everything to free them.”
#UkraineIsYouDavos
#RussianWarCrimes
"Ukrainians have always been brave, but only now the entire civilized world stands by us. This is our unique chance. And of course, the USA is our greatest partner, and we need their bipartisan support “ - Victor Pinchuk at the Public Discussion with
@MikePompeo
For the last decade the Russian government set up an ostentatious outpost at the WEF in Davos called Russia House for attendees to enjoy champagne and canapés as they ignored Putin’s crimes. This year the same venue will be called Russian War Crimes House. Great idea
Oleksiy Kuleba says we must take heed of
@ZelenskyyUa
words yesterday, that we need to act, not to think, but to take positive, proactive actions. Whether this might be a rebuilding pilot in
#Kyiv
, or twinning of
#Bucha
and
#Davos
@yes_ukraine
Viktor Pinchuk: ''We decided that we need to tell this story about
#Russia
’s
#genocide
of
#Ukrainians
as loudly as possible, as broadly as possible because we need emotions. Emotions are a very important driver for strong decisions. We need strong decisions. Now.''
Kenneth Rogoff: "We are saying that Russia’s economy fell by 3%, but can we really believe this figure? I suspect it is far more damaging. I bet outside of the cities we see more like 50%. It would be impossible that this is anything like that real number."
#UkraineisYouDavos
"This crisis is completely manufactured and completely contrives by Mr. Putin"
@PMBreedlove
during a roundtable discussion by Victor Pinchuk Foundation
@yes_ukraine
@ACEurasia
Geoffrey Nice, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: “The cases against Putin are dead simple. Crimes against civilians, crimes against humanity are simple. We must not yield to calls that it will take a long time to prove these crimes."
#UkraineisYouDavos
Victor Pinchuk has accepted the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights for Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
@babynyarhm
“Babyn Yar in Ukraine tells us not about the past only, but it cries: Stop Genocide Now. In Ukraine, in Israel. Babyn Yar is not
Victor Pinchuk welcomed guests: "International support is crucial. Military support is important but I also believe art is very important. This is why I hope everyone here at
#WEF
comes to
#RussianWarCrimes
exhibition to see the reality of the war."
#UkraineIsYouDavos
.
@janinedigi
: "Let’s keep the pressure on the political will. Lets use advocacy and the truth. Vengeance is the most horrible deterrent for war. Justice delay is justice denied. Let’s give Ukraine justice and let Ukraine be the best it can."
#UkraineIsYouDavos
#RussianWarCrimes
UKRAINE IS YOU includes a discussion program, an exhibition about liberation and hope and evidence of Russia’s war crimes. Guests can learn, contribute and send a sign of unity and support at Promenade 59 in the space the project shares with Ukraine House Davos
#UkraineIsYouDavos