Dear colleagues!

Foreign Policy Research institute, with the assistance of the Directorate General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions s, invites you to take part in a roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions and experts on the topic: ‘V. Zelensky's Victory Plan And Strategy For Its Implementation’, which will be held on 28 October 2024, 11:00-13:10, at the press centre of the Directorate General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions at 6-a Pirogova St.

The following conceptual issues will be discussed during the roundtable:

1.The dilemma of peace and victory and security

- Is it possible to achieve a just peace without victory?

- Will victory ensure peace for Ukraine?

- Is peace possible without security, and security without peace?

2.Is it possible to correlate the meaning of victory, when Ukraine considers ‘returning to the 1991 borders’ as a victory, and the West considers ‘reaching a compromise with Russia’ by freezing the conflict?

3.Whether Western partners will support the following points of V. Zelensky's Victory Plan:

- Determining Ukraine's place in the European security architecture (NATO membership)?

- The Kursk operation.

- Provision of long-range weapons and permission to use them in Russia;

- financial investment in economic recovery.

4.How does the Peace Formula relate to V. Zelensky's Victory Plan?

5.Is ‘diplomatic coercion of Russia to peace’ realistic given Ukraine's weak position on the battlefield?

6.What will happen if Joe Biden rejects V. Zelensky's Victory Plan?

7.Does Ukraine have a clear strategy for winning the war with Russia and does the West have one?

У заході  візьмуть участь :

Oleksandr MUSIENKO, Head of the Centre for Military and Legal Studies;

Valentyn BADRAK, Director of the Centre for Army Studies,

Conversion and Disarmament Studies;

Vladyslav Volodymyrovych BELBAS, Director General of the Ukrainian Armoury (ammunition, tactical armoured personnel carriers, mortars, and BAK) (to be specified)

Oleksandr KHARA, director of the Centre for Defence Strategies;

Oleg ZHDANOV, military analyst.

Mykola SUNGUROVSKY, Director of Military Programmes at the Razumkov Centre.

Working language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.

Please confirm your participation in the roundtable by 28 October 2024.

Email: pgrigoriy@ukr.net; institute-fpri@ukr.net. Tel.:287-52-58; +38 0974872000