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View allOleg Ustenko (Chief Economic Advisor to Ukrainian President Zelensky) and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)
Chief economic advisor to Ukrainian President Zelensky, Oleg Ustenko, discussed sanctions and other economic dimensions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a conversation on PIIE’s virtual stage. Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, will moderate the conversation.