Remarks by Assistant Secretary for International Finance Brent Neiman on the Economic Front in Ukraine

As Prepared for DeliveryThank you for hosting me here today. For more than sixty years, the Atlantic Council has focused on promoting positive U.S. engagement around the world. This makes it a fitting venue for my remarks, which will focus on perhaps the defining international economic issue of President Biden’s first term: Russia’s war, and our economic support for Ukraine.Just a few days ago, I returned from a visit to Kyiv. From afar, it can be easy to anaesthetize the war with technical discussions of the violation of territorial integrity and international law, and the undermining of the post-World War II international order brought by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. But up close, it is impossible to lose sight of how the lives of forty million Ukrainians have forever changed. I spoke with many Ukrainians and heard their stories.