For many years, Ukraine remains a point of interest for the famous American philosopher, publicist, and researcher — professor of the Stanford University Francis Fukuyama. He carefully watched the events of the Orange Revolution of 2004, visited Kyiv a few days before Euromaidan in 2013, and in 2016 he gave a lecture in Lviv.
Fukuyama is also a supervisor for the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders program at Stanford University. In 2022, after the start of russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, he gave dozens of interviews to world media where he spoke at length about the war, analyzed its circumstances and possible consequences. He publicly declared: Ukraine will definitely win.
“Ukraine’s requirements for recovery will be enormous. And all of the friends of Ukraine on the outside are going to have to step up to do this once there is an end to the war. I think the primary responsibility will fall on the Europeans, and I think that they’re probably going to be willing to do a lot in this regard,” Fukuyama noted in one interview, adding that the global community will need to pay attention not just to the economic, but the political side of Ukraine’s recovery.
In May 2023 Francis Fukuyama joined the ambassador team of the UNITED24 fundraising platform and chose a new direction — “Humanitarian Demining”.
Today Ukraine remains one of the most mined countries in the world. We will need years to fully clear our territories of enemy missiles and other hazardous and potentially dangerous remnants of the war, while our sappers will need professional and high-quality machinery to speed up the process.
