From the EGF Head of Research

Published on EGF: 10.03.2023

by EGF Editor

The downside of the existing geopolitical endgames of the war in Ukraine is that they might be only applied either after the end of the war or to Kyiv-controlled territory at the time of a possibly agreed truce. The latter possibility engenders the risk for Ukraine and its Western supporters to eventually have to choose between restoring Ukraine’s full territorial integrity and Western interests to avoid joining the war, turning it nuclear, or remaining engulfed into an exhausting open-ended war. This is why the West needs a comprehensive vision and a calibrated strategy aiming to build a new European security system which would put Ukraine and other post-Soviet states’ sovereignty, independence, and stability at its core. READ MORE