would be the worst-case scenario for Ukraine. The best-case scenario for Ukraine would be a full sweep by the Democratic party, with its candidate Vice President Kamala Harris taking the White House and its legislators gaining a majority in both houses of the U.S. Congress, she told the Kyiv Independent in a recent interview in Kyiv. Farkas is a prominent American national security advisor who has served in a variety of roles in prior U.S. administrations.In 2012, she was appointed deputy assistant defense secretary for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia under President Barack Obama.She served in this role when Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014 and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, later orchestrating a war in the far eastern Donbas region that preceded Russia’s full-scale invasion launched in early 2022.The Kyiv Independent sat down with Farkas in the Ukrainian capital days before the Nov.