Ukraine Can Win
Date and time:
Sunday 2 October, 2022
17:00 - 18:30
Location:
Swedenborg Hall
Barter Street
London
WC1A 2TH
What could a Ukrainian victory look like and is the West prepared for it? Anne Applebaum in conversation with Edward Lucas.
Western intelligence predicted that Ukraine’s armed forces would last no more than a week following a full-scale invasion by Russia. Today, after more than half a year of Russia’s brutal war, Ukraine has not simply survived the attack, it has successfully liberated key territories in the northeast of the country. It is becoming increasingly clear not only to Ukrainians but to the rest of the world: Ukraine can win this war.
What could a Ukrainian victory look like and is the West prepared for it? Anne Applebaum, award-winning journalist and author, and patron of the Ukrainian Institute London, will discuss the developments in Russia’s war against Ukraine in conversation with Edward Lucas.
Speaker
Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic, a Pulitzer-prize winning historian, and a patron of the Ukrainian Institute London. She is also a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-directs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.
A Washington Post columnist for fifteen years, she has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator, as the Political Editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. From 1988-1991 she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent of the Economist magazine and the Independent newspaper.
Anne's award-winning books Iron Curtain (2012), Gulag: A History (2003) and Red Famine (2017) have all appeared in more than two dozen translations, including all major European languages.
Anne's newest book The Twilight of Democracy (2020) reveals the patterns that link the new advocates of illiberalism and charts how they use conspiracy theory, political polarization, social media, and nostalgia to change their societies.
Speaker
Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He is a Times columnist, former senior editor at the Economist, and writes a weekly column for CEPA.
Edward has covered Central and Eastern European affairs since 1986, writing, broadcasting, and speaking on the politics, economics, and security of the region.
A graduate of the London School of Economics and long-serving foreign correspondent in Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, and the Baltic states, he is an internationally recognized expert on espionage, subversion, the use and abuse of history, energy security and information warfare.
He is the author of five books: The New Cold War (2008, revised and republished in 2014); Deception (2011); The Snowden Operation (2014), Cyberphobia (2015), and Spycraft Rebooted: How Technology is Changing Espionage (2018).
