Can Security Guarantees Stop Russia’s War? — with Hanna Shelest

If Ukraine does not receive real security guarantees, the war will continue — and is likely to spill over into the rest of Europe. But what kind of guarantees are truly needed, and which of them are realistic?

• Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko, a Ukrainian philosopher, editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld, and president of PEN Ukraine.
• Our guest today is Hanna Shelest, one of Ukraine’s leading experts on international security and foreign policy. She is Director of the Security Studies Program at the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism,” and Editor-in-Chief of the journal UA: Ukraine Analytica.

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