 My name is Peter Urban. I am the Global Principal Advisor of IFAS, the International Foundation for Electrical Systems. I am here with USAIP today to hold an event. I am also fortunate to be the Senior Country Director of IFAS in Ukraine and hence live in Kiev. First and foremost, Ukrainian soldiers on the front line, Ukrainians throughout Ukraine, are fighting for freedom and for democracy and that is an extremely important core value for all of us. This is why we believe at IFAS that we can make a contribution towards Ukrainians building an even better democracy after the war. Winning the peace is pivotal for Ukraine to position itself in Western Europe, in the European Union and we see now that Ukraine has a chance to ascend to the European Union and in order to do so, it also has to further strengthen its democratic practices. There is no doubt that the priority has to be on winning this war but there is much that can be done already now to also ensure that when victory comes, the peace is won. And we are working hard together with our Ukrainian partners on many of these issues. We hope that the Ukraine political elites will ensure that there will be a solid legal framework for the elections that comes after victory and that issues such as ensuring that the Ukrainians that were forced away from their homes to other parts of Ukraine and abroad that they will be given the opportunity to vote. There are a number of things that can be done now in order to lay the ground for winning the peace. First and foremost, U.S. and other international friends must focus on providing Ukraine the necessary assistance so they can win the war because only then is the issue of strengthened democracy truly relevant. But within that assistance, we must also recognize that we should make whatever contribution we can do for Ukraine to offer the best possible society for its people when peace comes. And this has many facets to it. There are a number of international friends of Ukraine that right now are hard at work at providing various forms of assistance towards the peace, towards a stronger democracy. We for example at IFAS are sitting side by side with our Ukrainian friends every single day working on an even stronger legal framework that will be used for elections after the war, elections that will be tremendously challenging in that they will happen in the same years that Ukraine needs to reconstruct itself.