Taking Measure of Ukraine’s Defense Capabilities & Needs After a Third Year of War

Date

Event

US-Ukraine Security Dialogue XVII: Taking Measure of Ukraine’s Defense Capabilities & Needs After a Third Year of War was held  in Washington DC on February 26, 2025.

The event featured six panel discussions and two highlight focus sessions. The first five panel discussions will be dedicated to evaluating Ukraine’s continued ability to properly engage in war along classical security dimensions: land (regular/territorial); sea/maritime defense; air/air defense; special ops/cyber & information warfare as well as its capacity to adequately maintain (and indeed expand) its military-industrial assets. 

The sixth and last panel discussion centered on envisioning an acceptable endgame for the Russo-Ukrainian War. 

The two highlight focus sessions gave prominence, as tradition would have it, to considering why Ukraine’s security matters enough to its neighbors and the world at large to merit serious military assistance in time of need. 

SPEAKERS

• Margarita Assenova
• George Barros
• Stephen Blank
• Matthew Boyse
• Ian Brzezinski
• Phil Breedlove
• Janusz Bugajski
• Wesley Clark
• Luke Coffey
• Ariel Cohen
• Eliot A. Cohen
• William Courtney
• Andrij Dobriansky
• Kelly A. Grieco
• Glen E. Howard
• Ihor Kabanenko
• Adrian Karatnycky
• Marcus Kolga
• Tom McDevitt
• Greg Melcher
• Mark Montgomery
• Phillips Payson O’Brien
• Myron B. Rabij
• Michael Sawkiw
• James Sherr
• Milan Vego
• Zenovy Wowczuk
• Andriy Zagorodnyuk
• Walter Zaryckyj

SPONSORS

Patrons

• Heritage Foundation at First Federal Savings
• Buduchnist Foundation
• UCCA ILLINOIS
• Self Reliance NY Federal Credit Union
• Vovk Foundation
• Self Reliance Chicago FCU

STEERING COMMITTEE

PRESENTATIONS & MEDIA

• View a video recording #1 of the event here
• View a video recording #2 of the event here
• View a video recording #3 of the event here
• View a video recording #4 of the event here
• See photos from the event below. 

PROGRAM