Dear colleagues!
The Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, with the assistance of the State Enterprise ‘Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions’, invite you to participate in a roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions and experts titled Challenges for Ukraine’s Defence Industry in 2026–27 amid the Third World War, which will take place on Wednesday, 26 August 2026, from 11:00 am to 1:10 pm at the GDIP Media Center Directorate located at 6-A Pyrohova St, Kyiv.
The event will address the capacity of Ukraine’s defence industry to meet frontline needs in 2026–27; promising defence technologies and opportunities to strengthen Ukraine’s defence capabilities; the technological competitiveness of Ukrainian weapons; access to global markets without compromising national security; and the development of international defence and technology cooperation. Particular attention will be paid to the role of the defence industry in strengthening Ukraine’s international agency, the technological prospects of Ukraine and Europe through 2030, the future architecture of European security, subregional technology alliances, as well as technological scenarios for the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2026–27 and the role of innovation in weapons development.
The event’s speakers:
- Valentyn Badrak, director of the Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies;
- Anatolii Klochko, brigadier general, deputy minister of defence of Ukraine (2024–26);
- Oleksandr Khara, director of the Centre for Defence Strategies;
- Petro Oleshchuk, lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, doctor of political science, Ukrainian political analyst;
- Valerii Borovyk, chairman of the board of the New Energy of Ukraine Alliance, founder of First Contact;
- Mykhailo Samus, military and political analyst, director of the New Geopolitics Research Network, deputy director of the Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies.
Event language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.
Registration will remain open until 25 August 2026. To register, please fill in the form via the link: https://forms.gle/8YMDCcLKM7EHg1Kp7
To receive additional information, please contact us by phone at +38 (097) 487-20-00 or +38 (044) 287-52-58, or via email at pgrigoriy@ukr.net or institute-fpri@ukr.net