On March 21-22, the 16th annual Kyiv Security Forum was held in the Ukrainian capital by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation to mobilize transatlantic support for Ukraine.

The slogan of this year's gathering is “Ukraine’s Call to the World: Together, We Prevail.”

The Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, paid his first visit to Ukraine to participate in the KSF.

In total, more than 80 speakers took part in the forum, including high-level representatives of NATO and the European Union, defense ministers of partner countries, European and American politicians and experts, international figures, world experts on international relations and security issues, diplomats, journalists and civil society activists.

Among them, there were such prominent international figures as: President of the European Council in 2009-14 Herman Van Rompuy; President of the European Commission in 2004-14 Jose Manuel Barroso; First Vice-President of the European Commission in 2010-14 Baroness Catherine Ashton; Members of the KSF Security Council, Prime Minister of Estonia in 2014-16 Taavi Rõivas; and Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999-2000 and 2008-12 Andrius Kubilius; Commander of the United States Forces in Europe in 2014-17 Lieutenant General Ben Hodges; U.S. General Gordon B. "Skip" Davis Jr.; Commander of U.S. Central Command in 2008-10 and Director of the CIA in 2011-12 General David Petraeus.

The forum was dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the signing of the political part of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, which became one of the most important achievements of the Revolution of Dignity.

The main topics discussed during the two days of the KSF included the situation on the frontline, urgent military assistance to Ukraine, Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO, preparations for the European Parliament elections, the NATO Summit in Washington, and the US presidential election, and the vision of the West's strategy for Ukraine.