February 24 marks the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Though Ukraine has won many battles, the war for Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent, democratic nation rages on at a very steep human cost.

To commemorate this important day for Ukraine and the world, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is honored to host a panel of high-profile Ukrainian leaders currently based in Kyiv and Washington, D.C. for a discussion of the impact of the war on daily life, the global democratic order, and Ukraine's future.

Our guest speakers — all CDDRL alumni — Anastasiia Malenko (journalist), Oleksii Movchan (Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's Parliament), Andriy Shevchenko (Former Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada; Head of the Ukrainian World Congress Mission to Ukraine; Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy), and Oleksandra Ustinova (Member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's Parliament) will offer analysis of the war’s political and economic dimensions, democratic governance under wartime conditions, and Ukraine’s engagement with international partners.

Kathryn Stoner, CDDRL Mosbacher Director and Satre Family Senior Fellow at FSI, and Michael McFaul, the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, FSI, and the Woods Institute for the Environment, and former U.S. ambassador to Russia, will moderate the panel.