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

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

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.

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

Balázs JARABIK, Founder of Minority Report, a political risk consultancy cover-ing Central and Eastern Europe, and a partner at R.Politik, Bratislava

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: Kateryna STETSEVYCH, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 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

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

Fredrik WESSLAU, Distinguished policy fellow at the Stockholm Centre for East-ern European Studies (SCEEUS), Stockholm

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

* invited

Yevhen HLIBOVYTSKY, Director of Frontier Institute and Supervisory board member at Suspilne (Ukrainian public service broadcast), Kyiv

Sevgil MUSAJEVA, Chief Editor of Ukrayinska Pravda, Kyiv

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

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

Jaroslava BARBIERI, Research Fellow, Ukraine Forum, Russia and Eurasia Pro-gramme, Chatham House, London

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), Stockholm

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

MarKo 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 International for Ukraine and Moldova, Berlin

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

Nataliya PRYHORNYTSKA, Co-Founder and Board Member of Open Platform/ Alliance of Ukrainian Or-ganizations, Berlin

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

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

• What were the key takeaways?

• What questions remained unresolved and need to be addressed in the future?

• Looking at the sphere of politics: Who should do what with whom by when?

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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** prel. confirmed

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

James SHERR, Honorary Fellow of Institute at the International Centre for Defence and Securi-ty (ICDS) and Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chat-ham House, Tallinn

Nicolas TENZER, Chairman of the Center for Studies and Research on Political Decision (CERAP) and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Non-resident Senior Fel-low at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Paris

Victoria VOYTSITSKA, Advocacy Director, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, former Member of Parliament, Secretary at the Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security (2014-2019), Kyiv*

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

* invited

** prel. confirmed