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 roundtable will address the following issues:
- Is Ukraine’s defence industry capable of meeting the needs of the frontline in 2026–27?
- Which defence technologies will see the greatest advances over the next one to two years, and can Ukraine further increase its defence capabilities?
- How can the experience of Ukraine’s defence industry be leveraged to consolidate the country’s agency and strengthen its influence on the international stage?
- How can Ukraine transition to exporting weapons to the global market without compromising its national security?
- How can Ukraine build safe and effective partnerships in defence cooperation and technology development?
- Assessing the technological competitiveness of Ukrainian weapons against the technological advances of the opposing bloc (russia, the DPRK, Iran, and China).
- Technological prospects for Europe and Ukraine in 2026–30.
- Models for the future European security architecture and the role of defence cooperation.
- How promising could subregional technology alliances be, and what role could Ukraine play in them?
- Technologies and scenarios for the russian-Ukrainian war in 2026–27: what can Ukraine do to ensure effective resistance to the enemy by fostering 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.
To register or 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.
Registration will remain open until 25 August 2026. Registration form: https://forms.gle/8YMDCcLKM7EHg1Kp7
