Учасники: Participants: Artem Chekh (writer and soldier), Andrii Bashtovyi (lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ex-commander of an air assault platoon, and media manager), Yevheniia Zakrevska (military servicewoman and lawyer), Denys Kobzin (military serviceman of the Territorial Defence Forces and sociologist), Pavlo Khazan (lieutenant colonel and ecologist), Yevhenii Shybalov (serviceman of the Territorial Defence Forces and former prisoner of war), Daria Zubenko (military servicewoman, commander of the division of the International Legion of the AFU), Andriana Arekhta (leader of the Women's Veterans Movement, servicewoman of the special unit of the AFU).
Moderated by Nataliya Gumenyuk.
By fighting against Ukraine, Russia is also trying to prove that democracies are weaker than authoritarian systems and that the world should be dominated by the rule of force. But isn’t the army of a democratic country and a democratic society stronger? An army consisting of citizens who consciously chose to defend their country. After all, what is an ‘army of a democratic country’? And what does democracy mean in the army? The participants of this conversation are Ukrainian servicemen and servicewomen. When we hear the opinion that today “Ukraine is protecting democracy in the world”, what do they say about it? What is the real price of it? How do they see Ukrainian democracy during and after the war?