Together Alone? Ukraine Policy in a New Phase of Atlanticism

Mattia NELLES, Co-Founder & Executive Director, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Düsseldorf

Kateryna RIETZ-RAKUL, Head, Ukrainian Institute in Germany, Berlin

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

Marta DYCZOK, Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and History University of Western Ontario/Canada

Meaghan MOBBS, President of R. T. Weatherman Foundation and Director for American Safety and Security at Independent Women, Washington D.C.

Bryan LANZA, Partner in Mercury’s Washington DC office and former Com-munications Director for President Donald J. Trump’s Transition Team and Deputy Communications Director for the Trump-Pence Presidential cam-paign, Washington D.C.

MODERATION: Melinda HARING, Senior Advisor at Razom for Ukraine and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Eurasia Center of the Atlantic Council, Washington D.C.

Orysia LUTSEVYCH, Head of the Ukraine Forum and Deputy Director, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House, London

Amanda PAUL, Senior Policy Analyst and Deputy Head of the Europe in the World Programme at the EPC (European Policy Center), Brussels

Anastasiya SHAPOCHKINA, President and Founder at Eastern Circles and Faculty Membre at Sciences Po Paris, Paris

MODERATION: Eva YAKUBOSKA, Board Member of Vitsche e.V., Berlin

Kick-off Impulse by:

Michael KOFMAN, Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington D.C.

Followed by discussion with:

Gustav GRESSEL, Hauptlehroffizier und Forscher Landesverteidigungsakade-mie des Österreichischen Bundesheers, Wien

Taras TYMOCHKO, Lead Dronefall Project, Come Back Alive, Ukraine

Oleksandr YABCHANKA, Captain and Commander of the Robotic Systems Service of the 'Da Vinci Wolves' Battalion, 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukraine

MODERATION: Elena DAVLIKANOVA, Sahaidachnyi Security Center and Democ-racy Fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Kyiv

Eric CIARAMELLA, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie En-dowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.

Nataliya GUMENYUK, Journalist and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab, Kyiv

Phillips O'BRIEN, Historian and Professor of Strategic Studies University of St Andrews, Scotland

Yaroslav TROVIMOV, Chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and Author of “Our Enemies Will Vanish” (2024) and “No Country for Love” (2024), Kyiv/New York

MODERATION: Konrad SCHULLER, Journalist, Frankfurther Allgmeine Zeitung (FAZ), Frankfurt a.M.

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Yevhen HLIBOVYTSKY, Head of Frontier Institute and Lecturer at the Ukraini-an Catholic University, Kyiv

Sevgil MUSAJEVA, Chief Editor of Ukrayinska Pravda, Kyiv

Maria ZOLKINA, Head of Regional Security & Conflict Studies, Democratic Initiatives Foundation and Associate Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Kyiv/London

MODERATION: Gesine DORNBLUETH, Journalist, Texte und Töne, Berlin

Daniel BRÖSSLER, Foreign Affairs Correspondent in the Berlin Parliamentary Office, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Berlin/München

Ljudmyla MELNYK, President, German-Ukrainian Society (D.U.G.) and Head of the Ukraine Program of IEP, Berlin

Andreas UMLAND, Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), and As-sociate Professor of Politics at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Stock-holm

MODERATION: Mattia NELLES, German-Ukrainian Bureau

Andriy LYUBKA, Autor, Writer, Director of the Institute for Central European Strategy (ICES) and Vice President of PEN Ukraine, Kyiv

Marco MARTIN, Writer and author, Berlin

Sevgil MUSAJEVA, Chief Editor of Ukrayinska Pravda, Kyiv

MODERATION: Kateryna RIETZ-RAKUL, Head of Ukrainian Institute in Germany, Berlin

Oleksandr IAKYMENKO, Program Coordinator at Democracy Reporting In-ternational for Ukraine and Moldov, Kyiv

Miriam KOSMEHL, Senior Expert Eastern Europe and EU Neighbourhood, Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh

Nataliya PRYHORNYTSKA, Allianz Ukrainischer Organisationen e.V., Berlin

MODERATION: Eduard KLEIN , Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Bremen

Olena HALUSHKA, Co-Founder of International Centre for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV) and Board Member at Anti-Corruption Action Center, Kyiv

Yaroslav TROVIMOV, Chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, Kyiv/New York

Yuliya ZISKINA, Senior Legal Fellow at Razom, Washington D.C.

MODERATION: Simon SCHLEGEL, Head Ukraine Program, LibMod (Zentrum Li-berale Moderne), Berlin

Oleksandr YABCHANKA, Captain and Commander of the Robotic Systems Service of the 'Da Vinci Wolves' Battalion, 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukraine

Taras TYMOCHKO, Lead Dronefall Project, Come Back Alive, Ukraine

MODERATION: Viktoriya FESHAK, Interdisciplinary Analyst and Strategist, Vitsche Germany, Berlin

Myroslav LAIUK, Ukrainian Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, TV and Radio Host, Kyiv

Andriy LYUBKA, Autor, Writer, Director of the Institute for Central European Strategy (ICES) and Vice President of PEN Ukraine, Kyiv

Marko MARTIN, Writer and author, Berlin

MODERATION: Kateryna RIETZ-RAKUL, Head of Ukrainian Institute in Germany, Berlin

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Rebecca HARMS, Vice Chair, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and former Member of the European Parliament (2004-2019), Uelzen

Andriy KULYKOV, TV and Radio Presenter, Moderator, Media Trainer, and Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Public Organization, Kyiv

Olena HALUSHKA, Co-Founder of International Centre for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV) and Board Member at Anti-Corruption Action Center, Kyiv

James SHERR, Senior Fellow of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the In-ternational Centre for Defence & Security and Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, Tallinn/London

Brian WHITMORE, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Texas-Arlington

MODERATION: Olga TOKARIUK, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), London

Inna NELLES, Co-Founder, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Düsseldorf

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

Arrival at approx. 14:00

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