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Trump’s return and the fate of Ukraine

Fiona Hill, Anastasiia Lapatina, Tyler McBrien, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Benjamin Wittes
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 4:48 PM
Bucha main street after Russian invasion of Ukraine. April 4, 2022. (Oleksandr Ratushniak, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bucha_main_street_after_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine_%283to4%29.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine remains sovereign and independent, with strengthened security and political ties to Europe and the United States. But its defensive war and Washington’s support for Kyiv stand at a turning point: Ukraine faces challenges on the battlefield, and President Donald Trump has vowed to bring the war to an end while pursuing a broader foreign and trade policy agenda that is rattling the trans-Atlantic alliance.  

On Feb. 24, at 10 a.m. ET, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe and Lawfare will hold a discussion on the war in Ukraine, looking at the path of U.S. and European relations with Ukraine before and during the conflict as well as what lies ahead in 2025 and beyond. The discussion will feature Brookings experts as well as the co-hosts of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo’s new limited series narrative podcast “Escalation,” which chronicles the surreal twists and turns between the United States and Ukraine through the lens of the journalists, diplomats, spies, and ambassadors who crafted the relationship between the two countries.  

This event will be open to attend in person or watch online. Register for the livestream here. Online viewers can submit questions via e-mail to events@brookings.edu or on X/Twitter at #Escalation.

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Fiona Hill

Fiona Hill

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Dr. Fiona Hill is the Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and the author of the new book, “There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century.”
Anastasiia Lapatina

Anastasiia Lapatina

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Anastasiia Lapatina is a Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. She previously worked as a national reporter at Kyiv Independent, writing about social and political issues. She also hosted and produced podcasts “This Week in Ukraine” and “Power Lines: From Ukraine to the World.” For her work, she was featured in the “25 Under 25” list of top young journalists by Ukraine’s Media Development Foundation, as well as “Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe” class of 2022 in the category Media and Marketing.
Tyler McBrien

Tyler McBrien

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Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare. He previously worked as an editor with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Princeton in Africa Fellow with Equal Education in South Africa, and holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.
Constanze Stelzenmüller

Constanze Stelzenmüller

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Constanze Stelzenmüller, an expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy, is a Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. She held the 2019-2020 Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe from 2014 to 2019. Prior to Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow and Berlin office director with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).
Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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