Local elections in Donbas risk scuttling the Minsk agreement
Will free and fair elections take place in eastern Ukraine, with Russian proxies threatening to host rival polls?
Experts & Staff
Fredrik Wesslau
ECFR Alumni · Director of the Wider Europe Programme
Areas of expertise
European foreign policy, conflict and crisis management, state-building, counter-piracy, South Caucasus, and Western Balkans
Languages
Swedish, English, French
Biography
Fredrik Wesslau used to be Director of the Wider Europe Programme and Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR until 2018.
EU needs to step up its game in Ukraine
The EU should stay true to basic principles in dealing with Russian revisionism and push back when these principles are violated
View from Stockholm: The EU must stay the course
Sweden continues to support sanctions on Russia and the Swedish public is fully behind its government's hard line on Sweden's eastern neighbour
In the media
The idea is to deploy ground and air assets from NATO allies, so, for instance, Patriot systems, or F-16 [fighter jets] to Poland, Slovakia, and Romania on their side of the border with Ukraine
Fredrik Wesslau on NATO members supporting Ukraine in air defense
Fredrik Wesslau on NATO´s air defense
Frederik Wesslau interviewed on Kosovo's 10 year anniversary
Frederik Wesslau writes about Spain's non-recognition of Kosovo's independence in relation to the Catalan separatism case
Fredrik Wesslau and Andrew Wilson's ECFR report on the Russian Zapad military exercise is quoted