Ahead of the Munich Security Conference 2020, the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group stresses the need for a political solution to the armed conflict in Ukraine.
Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic and ELN member, provides his country’s priorities for the 2019 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
To support Ukraine against Russian aggression and deter further escalation, NATO and the EU should look to World War II history and borrow a page from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roger Hilton argues that European policy makers will have to formulate a new approach, including considering additional sanctions, to counter Russian actions and support Ukraine.
Needlessly arming Ukraine only escalates tension in the region and distracts attention from the tasks that are critical to Ukraine’s future.
Oleksandr Tytarchuk, co-founder of the East European Security Research Initiative Foundation, argues that there are more pros than cons to Ukraine receiving lethal aid from the United States.