“Right Now, we Need to Think First and Foremost About Ensuring Ukraine’s Future Security”
Excerpts from Head of the Foreign Policy Department at the National Institute for Strategic Studies Oleh ALEKSANDROV’s Speech at the roundtable discussion “Problems and Prospects for Creating a New European Security System in the Context of Russia’s Aggressive Foreign Policy”, held by the Institute for Global Politics on December 11, 2025.
- The Visegrad Group, Bucharest 9, and so on are completely ineffective and will not work.
- Coalition of the Willing – up to 40 countries with different motivations – we do not see the creation of a security system based on it.
- There are several European states ready to join not only with weapons but also with armed forces on the ground. Something can be created on their basis.
- The only guarantee of security in Europe today is NATO.
- NATO should be seen not as a tool for the constant expansion of democratic space, but as a defensive alliance.
- The US Strategy for 2025 views Europe as a region that is vulnerable to the challenges of migration and internal instability.
- Right now, we need to think first and foremost about ensuring Ukraine’s future security.
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