European Defense Alliance: The Time Has Come, Ukraine Is Ready

How Europe can become stronger: insights from Ukrainian experts

Ukraine Crisis Media Center, together with the Defense Information Consortium, organized a roundtable discussion where leading experts and policymakers explored the future of Euro-Atlantic security, Ukraine’s role in the new European defense architecture, and ways to strengthen cooperation in the defense industry.

Participants included:

Valeriy Chaly, chairman of the board of the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary;

Mykola Kniazhytskyi, member of the Ukrainian Parliament, member of the Supervisory Board of the Defense Information Consortium;

Valentyn Badrak, director of the Center for army, Conversion and disarmament studies; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium;

Sergiy Zgurets, director of the Defense Express Information and Consulting Company; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium (online);

Valeriy Borovyk, chairman of the board of the New Energy of Ukraine Alliance (online);

Mykhailo Samus, director of the New Geopolitics Research Network; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium;

Oleksii Izhak, National Institute for Strategic Studies; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium (online).

Moderator: Vasyl Pekhno, journalist.

00:00 Valeriy Chaly – About the rRole of the United States in defending Europe

02:47 Valeriy Chaly – The importance of Ukraine in the new European defense model

05:02 Mykola Kniazhytskyi – Ukraine’s ability to make Europe strong

09:10 Mykhailo Samus – Creation of European defense forces

10:39 Mykhailo Samus – Drawbacks and challenges of the Joint White Paper for European Defense redness 2030

11:10 Valeriy Chaly – Potential participants in the Sub-regional Defense Alliance

16:00 Oleksii Izhak – On porcupine strategy

20:37 Valeriy Borovyk – On the low level of Europe’s military-technical potential

23:53 Valentyn Badrak – on the threat of an attack on Europe

26:40 Sergiy Zgurets – about the importance of UAVs

27:49 Sergiy Zgurets – about the backwardness of the level of European weapons compared to the United States

30:40 Valeriy Chaly – about missiles, Ukrainian wolves and behavior with partner countries