Ukraine Strategy Seminar 2026

Bus departs at 12:50 from Wunstorf train station

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

Bureau, Düsseldorf

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum

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

Yaryna CHORNOHUZ, Poet, Writer, Translator, and Marine, Servicemember of the 30th Marine Corps, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kyiv

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

Thomas RÖWEKAMP, MP (CDU), Chairman, Defence Committee of the Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin/Bremen

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

Dmytro KULEBA, former Foreign Minister of Ukraine (2020-2024), Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University and Associate Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Sciences Po, Kyiv

Anu PULKKINEN, Director, Unit for Eastern Europe, Finish Foreign Ministry, Helsinki*

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

*invited

Tuuli DUNETON, Undersecretary for Defence Policy, Estonian Ministry of Defence, Tallinn*

Falko DROSSMANN, MP (Social Democrats) Spokesperson on Defense Policy for the SPD Parliamentary, Deutscher Bundestag, Hamburg/Berlin

Bohdan DANYLYIV, Head of Military Department, Serhiy Prytula Foundation, Kyiv*

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

Oksana HUSS, Research Centre Trustworthy Data Science and Security, University Alliance Ruhr Duisburg and 2026 Partnership for Peace Research Fellow, NATO Defence College, Duisburg

Meriam YOL, Chief Operating Officer, Volonterska Foundation, Kharkiv

Natalia ZUBAR, Chair Maidan Monitoring Information Centre, Kharkiv

Arne Bård DALHAUG, Lieutenant General (Ret.), Royal Norwegian Army, President of the Norwegian Defence Association, and Senior Adviser to the Norwegian Atlantic Committee, Oslo

Anders Puck NIELSEN, Military Analyst, Naval Officer, Researcher, Royal Danish Defence Academy

Lesia OGRYZKO, Head of the Reform Support Office of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Co-founder & Director of the Sahaidachnyi Security Center

Moderation: Elena DAVLIKANOVA, Associate Senior Fellow, Sahaidachnyi Security Center

Lead: Balázs JARÁBIK, Founder, Minority Report, Budapest

Lead: Natalia ZUBAR, Citizen War Crime Investigator, Kharkiv

Lead: Gustav GRESSEL, Senior Lecturer and Researcher National Defence Academy, Austrian Armed Forces*

Yaryna CHORNOHUZ, Poet, Writer, Translator, and Marine, Servicemember of the 30th Marine Corps, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kyiv

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

*invited

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

Robin WAGENER, Member of Parliament (The Greens), Member in the Defence and in the Foreign Affair Committee and Head of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentarian Group, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin/Bad Salzufen

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

Anna KOSTRZEWA-MISZTAL, Deputy Director, Eastern Department, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw*

Olga RUDENKO, Chief Editor, Kyiv Independent, Kyiv

Adrian POLLMANN, Head of Department “Ukraine, Moldova, the South Caucasus, Black Sea Cooperation”, German Foreign Office, Berlin*

Yaroslav TROFIMOV, chief foreign-affairs correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, New York/Kyiv

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

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

*invited