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Ben Hall, the FT’s Europe editor, was joined by two colleagues and two expert guests on Thursday February 22 for a subscriber webinar about Russia’s war on Ukraine as it enters its third year. The panel featured Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko, Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, FT foreign editor Alec Russell and Anastasia Stognei, who covers the Russian economy, sanctions and ordinary Russians’ living standards for the FT.
Our panel covered the following topics and more:
How will Ukraine fare if Russian President Vladimir Putin wins his bet on Donald Trump returning to the White House and Europe takes over as Kyiv’s main source of military and economic aid?
How can the west make sanctions more effective as Russia militarises its economy and suppresses any domestic challenge to the war it unleashed with the February 2022 invasion of its neighbour?
As Ukraine’s military momentum falters and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s popularity wanes, should Ukraine hold presidential elections and how can it regain the initiative on the battlefield?
What do third countries stand to lose or gain from the outcome of the conflict?
