Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Marek Kuchcinski and Sejm Deputy Speaker Ryszard Terlecki met with US President Zelenski's advisor.
There was discussion about intensifying parliamentary cooperation between Poland, Ukraine, and the United States and supporting Ukraine. There was agreement on the need for greater sanctions on Russia, closing the skies over Ukraine, or a peacekeeping mission that would stop genocide and protect cities, including Ukrainian monuments.
Russians have no chance for normality, for democratic life with Putin. With the devastating sanctions, they also have no chance for development. According to the interlocutors, first of all the Russian intelligentsia must be convinced to change. The criminal must lose, and Ukraine must regain its pre-2014 borders.
Andrew Mac Andrew heads the Asters office based in Washington, DC. He specializes in cross-border transactions involving US, Ukrainian and CIS entities. As of November 5, 2019, he became an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. As head of Asters' U.S. office, Andrew Mac assists U.S. companies with all aspects of doing business in Ukraine, and Ukrainian companies with foreign expansion.
Adrian Karatnycky served as president and executive director of Freedom House from 1993 to 2004, during which time he developed assistance programs for democracy and human rights movements in Belarus, Serbia, Russia, and Ukraine. At Freedom House, he developed a number of long-term comparative analytical studies on democracy and political reform. He directed the Freedom in the World comparative study for twelve years and was co-editor of the annual Nations in Transit study on reform in the post-communist world.
He is a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and many other journals. He has co-authored three books and co-edited eight books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. He has been a prominent voice for the Council on the events unfolding in Ukraine.
