Thank you for joining us. Today, we have five phenomenal experts and we are very excited about this panel. We have an hour together. We invite you to put your questions into the chat or to send us questions on twitter. I will be glad to direct them to the right person. Without further ado, we have the Jeanne Kirkpatrick the at the council on Foreign Relations and contributed to the washington post. We have the former supreme allied commander in europe and a great event of the Eurasian Center and a board director. We have a senior policy regime a the grand corporation and everything he write is where the meeting. Really glad to have her and finally, he will be a couple minutes late, the former minister of defense. Distinguished fellow at the Eurasia Center and is chairman of a great think tank in key have called the centre for Defense Strategies. If youre not getting his daily updates get online and have a look. Centre for Defense Strategies really helpful. I want to make the most of ou
Live on cspan2. Will have conversation and at the tail end we invite you to put your questions into the chat or send us questions on twitter. Ill be glad to read them and directing to the right person. Without further ado we have welcome max boot lissa Jeane Kirkpatrick fellow and National Security studies at the council on Foreign Relations and established contributor to the washington post. We have general Philip Breedlove who is the former supreme allied commander in joke and a great friend of the Eurasia Center and a board director. We have dara massicot is a Senior Policy Research at the Rand Corporation and anything she writes is worth reading. We have Vivian Salama whos a National Security correspondent of the wall street journal and choose fresh back from glad to have her. And finally we have andriy zagorodnyuk, he will be a a ce minutes late but he is is a former mayors of defense, distinguished fellow at the Eurasia Center and is chairman of a great think tank in key have cal
The meeting is called to order. The agenda is adopted. I have received a letter from the representative of ukraine to the u. N. , requesting that his excellency, mr. Volodymyr zelenskyy, president of ukraine, be invited to participate via video teleconference in todays meeting, in accordance with rule 37. Would any member wish to take the floor on this matter . I gave the floor to the representative of the Russian Federation. Thank you, mr. President. Our delegation of objects to the virtual participation of the president of ukraine, zelenskiy, in todays meeting. We would like to explain our objection. We are not opposing the participation of the president of ukraine or his representative in the meeting. I will repeat once again for protocol and for those who will try to distort our possession, we do not object to the participation in this meeting. However, this participation must begin person, he must be physically present in the Council Chamber. These are the rules that govern the wo
The meeting is called to order. The agenda is adopted. I have received a letter from the representative of ukraine to the u. N. , requesting that his excellency, mr. Volodymyr zelenskyy, president of ukraine, be invited to participate via video teleconference in todays meeting, in accordance with rule 37. Would any member wish to take the floor on this matter . I gave the floor to the representative of the Russian Federation. Thank you, mr. President. Our delegation of objects to the virtual participation of the president of ukraine, zelenskiy, in todays meeting. We would like to explain our objection. We are not opposing the participation of the president of ukraine or his representative in the meeting. I will repeat once again for protocol and for those who will try to distort our possession, we do not object to the participation in this meeting. However, this participation must begin person, he must be physically present in the Council Chamber. These are the rules that govern the wo
Your questions into the chat or send us questions on twitter. Without further ado, max boot, the Jeanne Kirkpatrick fellow in Natural National Security Studies and contributor to the Washington Post. General philip dash, former supreme allied commander in europe and a great friend of the Eurasia Center. Senior policy researcher at the rand corporation. Anything she writes is worth reading. We have a National Security correspondent at the wall street journal, fresh back from purse on. We have andre mckee is going to be late, he is the former minister of defense and distinguished fellow at the Eurasia Center and chairman of a great think tank in kyiv called the center for defense strategies. If you are not getting his daily updates, get online and have a look. I want to make the most of our time and go to kick us off. Two weeks ago, ukraine launched its longawaited counteroffensive to retake territory in the south. How much territory do you expect ukraine to liberate . What are the chall