Four Years of War: Updates from Ukraine
Four Years of War: Updates from Ukraine
Tuesday, February 24, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)
In-person event for Stanford affiliates only: Bechtel Conference Center (Encina Hall, 1st floor, 616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford)
Livestream available to the public: via Zoom, if prompted for a password, use: 123456
Members of the media interested in attending this event should contact cddrl_communications@stanford.edu.
February 24 marks the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Though Ukraine has won many battles, the war for Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent, democratic nation rages on at a very steep human cost.
To commemorate this important day for Ukraine and the world, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is honored to host a panel of high-profile Ukrainian leaders currently based in Kyiv and Washington, D.C. for a discussion of the impact of the war on daily life, the global democratic order, and Ukraine's future. This important discussion will feature Ukrainian policymakers offering analysis of the war’s political and economic dimensions, democratic governance under wartime conditions, and Ukraine’s engagement with international partners.
The panel will be introduced by Kathryn Stoner, Mosbacher Director of CDDRL and the Satre Family Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and moderated by Michael McFaul, the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, FSI, and the Woods Institute for the Environment, and former U.S. ambassador to Russia.
Lunch will be available for in-person attendees. For those unable to join us in person, a livestream of the panel will be available via Zoom. Please register for more information.
Meet the Panelists
Oleksii Movchan
Oleksii Movchan is a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, representing the “Servant of the People” faction. He chairs the subcommittee on public procurements and state property management, and is active in inter-parliamentary groups with the USA, UK, Japan, and others. Before parliament, he led projects at Prozorro.Sale. Oleksii holds degrees from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukrainian Catholic University, and Kyiv School of Economics. He has advanced key reforms in procurements, state-owned companies, and privatization to support Ukraine’s European Union integration. He was a 2025 Fisher Family Summer Fellow and participated in the Strengthening Democracy and Development Program (SUDD) at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Shevchenko serves as the Head of Mission in Ukraine for the Ukrainian World Congress, where he leads efforts to strengthen cooperation between the global Ukrainian community, Ukrainian authorities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, international partners, and the broader Ukrainian diaspora. In this role, he focuses on political advocacy, coalition-building with governments worldwide, and supporting initiatives such as Unite with Ukraine and EnergizeUkraine, designed to assist Ukrainian defenders and citizens during the ongoing conflict. In Ukraine, Shevchenko is widely recognized for his experience as a journalist, community advocate, politician, and diplomat. For his contributions during the Orange Revolution, he was honored with the Press Freedom Award by Reporters Without Borders (Vienna, 2005). Until September 2023, he served as Deputy Minister of Defense, overseeing military diplomacy, NATO and EU cooperation, and international military assistance. He has also served as Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada and ICAO (2015-2021), and as a member of the Ukrainian Parliament (2006-2014), contributing significantly to Ukraine’s international relations and policy initiatives. He was a Yale University World Fellow in 2008 and a Draper Hills Summer Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2009. Currently, Shevchenko is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.
Oleksandra Ustinova
Oleksandra Ustinova is a member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. Since the beginning of Russia's invasion in 2022, she has met repeatedly with lawmakers in the United States to advocate on behalf of Ukraine, including an address before the U.S. House of Representatives on February 28, 2022. Prior to her government service, Ustinova was the head of communications and anti-corruption in healthcare projects at the Anti-Corruption Action Center (ANTAC), one of the leading organizations on anti-corruption reform in Ukraine. She was a visiting scholar with the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law from 2018-2019.