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How to shape security and foreign policy under conditions of the lasting full-scale war? What main goals and means of implementation should be? What is the hierarchy of priorities and is there a window for other, than military, dimensions? Kyiv provides the answers in real time.

Ukraine tries to achieve several goals simultaneously:

- to build, strengthen and enlarge coalition of support to win the war;

- to reconstruct existing international and security order;

- to become a member of the EU, while transforming its legislation and implementing urgent and crucial reforms.

What are the main peculiarities of both policies that should be addressed? Understanding that foreign policy is strictly subordinated to a security one. Foreign policy is marked with a new function, educational one, which is reflected in disseminating the information and knowledge about Ukraine in the world. Foreign policy is being updated, in particular Kyiv expands its presence in the regions that were beyond its considerable attention before the war: Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Kyiv has reinvented diplomacy, appealing for a more relaxed style, and quicker decision-making process that leads to new solutions.

Security policy’s main goal is to substantially transform existing security order, with obtaining an influential position for Ukraine. Accordingly, Kyiv keeps on generating different security initiatives, which declares its new role, and strives to obtain NATO full membership. Simultaneously Ukraine works hard on diminishing Russia’s position in the world, up to its isolation in the international arena. Security policy also includes an issue of reliable security guarantees for Ukraine together with the prospects of new military alliances/coalitions in the region of Eastern Europe. Special attention is given to issues associated with the non-proliferation regime and prospects of nuclear war.

Above-mentioned developments in Ukraine’s security and foreign policy have made Ukraine a game-changer in the international arena. The question is whether these changes are really stable and well-grounded, and is Kyiv capable of securing its new position in the international arena?