About event:

Expert-briefings aim at giving regular high-qualified updates regarding Russia’s large scale invasion of Ukraine and ongoing developments in the field of Russia’s aggression. Journalists of international media, experts and other interested stakeholders will have an opportunity to put necessary questions to experts, dealing with specific topics.

Organizers:  

Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, with support of Kyiv Office of Heinrich Byoll Stiftung and Kyiv Office of Heinrich Byoll Stiftung.

Invited speakers:

• Mykola Bielieskov  – Research Fellow, National Institute for Strategic studies under the President of Ukraine; Senior Analyst, Come Back Alive Foundation
• Petro Burkovsky  – Executive Director, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation
• Anastasiya Rydenko – Editor in Chief, “Eastern Variant”
• Sergiy Shapovalov – Political Analyst, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation
• Mariia Zolkina – Head of Regional Security and Conflict Studies, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation

Moderator:  Olexiy Haran  – Research Director,  Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation

Questions for discussion:

• Warfare developments: what is going on the battlefields?
• Russia’s withdrawal from the “grain deal”: new stage of blackmailing?  
• Sevastopol port explosions: what is behind?
• Escalation as compulsion for negotiations? What interests does Russia pursue?
• Occupied territories: oppressions, deportations and local moods in occupied and frontline areas 

before 5 pm EET (Kyiv time) on Tuesday, 1^st of Novermber, 2022.

Event is conducted with financial and organizational support of the Kyiv Office of Heinrich Byoll Stiftung and Kyiv Office of Heinrich Byoll Stiftung.