Too much of the debate and the diplomacy in the current crisis has been conducted without Ukraine. This volume allows leading Ukrainian experts to speak for themselves, giving a flavour of local debates in the terms and frames of reference that Ukrainians use.
Especially in light of the swirl of propaganda, mainly Russian, around recent events, ECFR is delighted to give a platform for what Ukrainians call the “ direct voice” of participants themselves.
We have gathered together three sests of papers: the firs, on the political situation and the war in the east; the second, Ukraine’s changing national identity and regional dynamics, and on the way that war has fast-forwarded this change; and the third, on difficulties of implementing much-nedded reforms under conditions of war.
