Dear colleagues!

The Foreign Policy Research Institute, with the assistance of the Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions, invites you to the roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions, leading Ukrainian mass media outlets, and experts on a topic entitled Security Guarantees for Ukraine in the Context of a New World Order, which will take place on Tuesday, 23 September 2025, from 11:00 am to 1:10 pm at the Media Center Directorate of the GDIP located at 6-А Pyrohova St.

The speakers will discuss the following framework issues:

1. Can Ukraine achieve victory as the russian-Ukrainian war increasingly resembles a Third World War?
2. The changing meaning of victory: not the liberation of territories but the survival of the state (‘For us, survival is victory’ — Volodymyr Zelenskyy). 
3. Victory achieved diplomatically through freezing the conflict. Minsk-3?
4. Should Ukraine accept the international security architecture that will emerge as a result of a Third World War?
5. Is the only path to Ukraine’s survival the acquisition of international security guarantees?
6. What constitutes security guarantees: a second Budapest Memorandum, Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, or a ‘Korean scenario’?
7. What underpins the implementation of security guarantees: peacekeeping, symbolic missions, deterrence, or defence?
8. What can Europe actually provide if its guarantees de facto mean dividing Ukraine into three zones — russian, demilitarised, and Western (‘The Russian zone already exists’ — Viktor Orbán)?
9. Are there real conditions for ending the war, and which of them could Ukraine accept to avoid capitulation?

The roundtable discussion’s speakers:

Mykola KAPITONENKO, PhD in Political Science, associate professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the ESIIR of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, executive director of the Centre for International Relations Studies;

Petro OLESHCHUK, PhD in Political Science, associate professor of the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv;

Volodymyr HAVRYLOV, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2022–23), Defence Attaché of Ukraine in the US (2015–18), Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reserve;

Oleksandr KHARA, Director of the Centre for Defence Strategies;

Mykola SUNHUROVSKYI, Military Programmes Director at the Razumkov Centre.

Event language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.

To register or receive additional information, please contact us by phone at +38 (044) 287-52-58, +38 (097) 487-20-00, via email at pgrigoriy@ukr.net, or fill out the following Google form: https://forms.gle/1tAXHchRg7QMZ23R7. 

Registration will remain open until 22 September 2025.

If you are arriving by your vehicle, please call +38 (067) 215-16-09 to have the barrier raised.

Please join us!