Security Guarantees for Ukraine in the Context of a New World Order — roundtable discussion

On Tuesday, 23 September 2025, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, with the assistance of the Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions, held a roundtable discussion entitled Security Guarantees for Ukraine in the Context of a New World Order at the Media Center Directorate of the GDIP. 

Hryhorii Perepelytsia, Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of Political Science, moderated the event. In his opening remarks, Professor Perepelytsia outlined the key issues for discussion and presented his vision of the situation. He particularly emphasised the question of security guarantees for Ukraine amid the risks of a Third World War and the evolving concept of victory: ‘In the early years of the full-scale invasion, we believed in victory until the war itself turned global. A thesis emerged that Ukraine’s victory became impossible once the russian-Ukrainian war acquired the features of a Third World War. This has reshaped the very meaning of victory, where the country’s survival constitutes victory. Thus, victory must be achieved either through diplomacy or by freezing the conflict. Yet freezing the conflict creates major challenges. If the conflict is frozen, russia will not be held accountable for its crimes nor withdraw from occupied territories; freezing the conflict would legitimise russia’s criminal actions and aggression’.