Mykhailo SamusAfter 1000 days of Kyiv’s resistance, experts discuss how to secure Ukraine’s and Europe’s future.
© Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2024
Research event, Panel Recording, 19 November 2024 — 2:00PM TO 3:30PM Online
19 November marks 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The country faces an ever-more ferocious fight for its future existence.
Having been given time to adapt, largely due to the slow release of Western military aid, the Russian army is pressing home its advantage. Along the entire eastern frontline, the Russians are simultaneously bombarding Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and cities. With the election of Donald Trump in the US, it seems to many that the tide has turned definitively in Putin’s favour at the political, as well as the military, level.
Trump’s declared ambition to resolve the war in 24 hours implies a Russian-American deal, cutting Kyiv out of negotiations. Such an ‘agreement’ would endanger the country’s future and expose the rest of Europe.
This webinar covers:
- Ukraine’s strategy of resistance in the context of Trump’s White House;
- The immediate risks during the transition period;
- How Kyiv sees Europe’s role in the new geopolitical environment;
- The extent to which Germany, Ukraine’s second largest donor, can step in.
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Participants:
Orysia Lutsevych OBE, Deputy Director, Russia and Eurasia Programme; Head of the Ukraine Forum, Chatham House
Kajsa Ollongren, former Minister of Defence of the Netherlands
Mykhailo Samus, director, New Geopolitics Research Network (Ukraine)
Benjamin Tallis, director, Democratic Strategy Initiative (Germany)
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, founder, Open Ukraine Foundation, former Prime Minister of Ukraine