Dear colleagues!

The Institute for Foreign Policy Studies, with the assistance of the General Directorate for Foreign Missions, invites you to participate in a round table for foreign diplomatic missions, leading Ukrainian media, and experts on the topic:  “Security guarantees for Ukraine in the context of the formation of a new world order”, which will take place on September 23, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:10 p.m., at the Media Center of the General Directorate for Servicing Foreign Missions at 6 Pirohov Street.

The following conceptual issues will be discussed during the round table.

1. Is it impossible for Ukraine to achieve victory when the Russian-Ukrainian war is taking on the characteristics of World War III?

2. Change in the meaning of victory: not “liberation of territories” but “survival of the country” (for us, survival is victory. V. Zelensky).

3. Victory is achievable through diplomatic means of “freezing the conflict” (Minsk-3?).

4. Should Ukraine agree to the international security architecture that will emerge as a result of World War III?

5. Is the only way for Ukraine to survive to be provided with international security guarantees?

6. What do “security guarantees” mean: the 2nd Budapest Memorandum, Article 5 of NATO, or the Korean scenario?

7. What is the basis for the implementation of guarantees: “peacemaking,” “symbolic mission,” deterrence, or “defense”?

8. What is Europe capable of when its guarantees effectively mean the division of Ukraine? The result of the division of Ukraine will be a Russian zone, a demilitarized zone, and a western zone. The Russian zone already exists (V. Orban).

9. Are there real conditions for ending the war, and which of them can Ukraine agree to without capitulating?

The event will be attended by:

Mykola Hennadiiovych KAPITONENKO, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor;

Petro Mykolayovych OLESHCHUK, Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Candidate of Political Sciences, Ukrainian political scientist;

Volodymyr Valeriyovych GAVRILOV, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine in 2022-2023, Defense Attaché of Ukraine to the United States in 2015-2018, Major General in reserve;

Oleksandr KHARA, Director of the Center for Defense Strategies.

Mykola SUNGUROVSKY, Director of Military Programs at the Razumkov Center;

 

Working language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.

 

Please confirm your participation in the round table by September 22, 2025.

For registration and additional information, please contact:

 

Tel.:+ 287-52-58; +38 0974872000  <pgrigoriy@ukr.net>

Sincerely,

Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute                                     Hrihorii Perepelytsia