Participants of the discussion:

- John Herbst, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Ukraine (2003-2006), director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center;
- Celeste Wallander, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia/Eurasia on the National Security Council (2013-2017), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia (2009 to July 2012);
- Steven Pifer, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Ukraine (1998-2000), William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies;
- William Taylor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Ukraine (2006-2009), Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. of the United States Embassy in Ukraine (2019-2020), vice president at the United States Institute of Peace;
- Ivannna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Integration of Ukraine to the EU;
- Vitaly Portnikov, journalist, publicist;
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum, Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2014-16;
- Danylo Lubkivsky, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine and member of the Board of Open Ukraine Foundation (moderator).