Dear colleagues!
The Centre for russian Studies, with the organisational support of the State Enterprise ‘Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions’, invites you to participate in a roundtable discussion entitled Nuclear Blackmail as the Kremlin’s Last Argument: Should Europe Tremble?. The event will take place on Thursday, 12 March 2026, at 11:00 am at the Media Center Directorate premises at 6-A Pyrohova St, Kyiv. The round table will follow a hybrid format, with both in-person and online participation.
Event moderator: Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007–9), Head of the Centre for russian Studies.
The event will bring together:
- Volodymyr HAVRYLOV, Major General (Ret.), Armed Forces of Ukraine; Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2022–23);
- Mykola FILATOV, Major General (Ret.); Commander of the 46th Missile Division (1990–94); First Deputy Commander of the 43rd Missile Army (1994–97);
- Serhii SHUTENKO, Director of the Department of International Security and Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;
- Pavlo HAI-NYZHNYK, Doctor of History; leading research fellow of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine;
- Oleksii YIZHAK, Head of Department, National Institute for Strategic Studies.
Issues for discussion:
- Nuclear blackmail: the primary instrument for intimidating the West.
- The current state of russia’s nuclear triad. Can the kremlin employ nuclear weapons?
- Nuclear ‘scares’ in the context of russia’s disintegration: actual situation.
- Europe’s options: continue trembling or emerge as a global actor.
- Nuclear propaganda of russia: lessons for Ukraine.
Working language: Ukrainian, with simultaneous interpretation into English.
Please confirm your participation by 11 March 2026 by completing the registration form: https://forms.gle/xzqymvm5CgEdHbz48.
For additional information, please contact Anna Mikholat, a team member of the GDIP Media Center, by phone at +38 (097) 454-47-11 or by e-mail at prepress.gdip@gmail.com.
You are welcome to join the event!
