invite you to the online discussion:

Zapad 2021: A Threat to NATO’s Eastern Flank?
 

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10 September (Friday) 2021
11:00-12:30 CEST (Poland)
12:00-13:30 MSK (Minsk)
10.00-11.30 GMT (London)

Topics for discussion:

• What are the stated and assumed real goals of the exercise?
• What is Russia signalling through the Zapad drills and what do they tell us about the state of the Russian Armed Forces?
• What do the exercises say about the prospects of deeper Russian-Belarusian military integration?
• How do the Zapad manoeuvres impact NATO defence and deterrence assumptions and the broader security of Central-Eastern Europe?

11:00 – 12:00 Panel Discussion
 

• Anna Maria Dyner, Senior Research Fellow, the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)
• Arsen Sivitsky, Director, Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies
• Mathieu Boulègue, Research Fellow, Chatham House
  
  Chair: Marcin Terlikowski, Head of the International Security Programme, PISM 

12:00 – 12:30 Q&A with audience

Questions may be posed through PISM’s YouTube channel
 

Those wishing to participate are kindly invited to join the debate via
PISM’s livestreamed YouTube channel:

 https://www.youtube.com/user/PolandPISM  

This online discussion will be recorded