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February 2023
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Keeping Ukraine on the Path to Victory
Keeping Ukraine on the Path to Victory
Past Event
Hudson Institute
February 21, 2023
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February 2023
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Vladimir Putin’s three-day war against Ukraine is entering its second year. Right now, Ukraine has the momentum after two successful counterattacks late last year in Kharkiv and Kherson, but Russia is finalizing a large-scale mobilization of fresh troops. Russia gets weaker as it digs deep into its stockpiles of older military hardware to use against Ukraine. Ukraine gets stronger as it receives more advanced military hardware from the West. The big question is whether Western military support for Ukraine is too-little-too-late, or if it will arrive just in time to turn the tide and make 2023 a year of victory. Join us to discuss what can be expected in 2023 and how the United States and its allies can continue their vital support for Ukraine.
Agenda
8:20 – 8:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks
- John P. Walters, President and CEO, Hudson Institute
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Keynote
- Ambassador Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. | Special Address
- Minister Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian Minister of Defense (remote)
9:15 – 9:45 a.m. | A View from the Front Line
- Mamuka Mamulashvili, Commander of the Georgian Legion (remote)
9:50 – 10:50 a.m. | Panel 1: Ukraine in 2023
- Nolan Peterson, Senior Editor for Coffee or Die; War Reporter based in Ukraine since 2014; former US Air Force Special Operations Pilot
- Paul Massaro, Foreign Policy Expert
- Melinda Haring, Director, Superhumans Center and Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Moderator
- Peter Rough, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia, Hudson Institute
10:50 – 11:10 a.m. | Intermission
11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Panel 2: The Liberation of Crimea
- LTG (ret.) Ben Hodges, former Commanding General of US Army Europe; Senior Advisor, Human Rights First (remote)
- Maria Tomak, Head of the Crimea Platform Department at the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (remote)
- Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute
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- Luke Coffey, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
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