On June 19, 2026, on the initiative of the Ukrainian-Gulf Cooperation Platform (UGCP), in partnership with the NGO “Diplomacy in Action,” the first roundtable in the Student-Diplomat Roundtable series was held on the topic “AI, War, and Ethics: Can Technology Be Neutral?”

This question seems provocative only to those accustomed to viewing international institutions as unchanging stage scenery rather than living legal constructs subject to the same principles of logic and justice that underpin any legal system. In matters of this magnitude, nothing is impossible — there is only a lack of will and a lack of arguments. Diplomats will have to address the first; the second is what I will try to work through here.

Program Director of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation and board member of the Center for Research on the Liberation Movement Yaryna Yasynievych has been elected co-chair of the Council of the Reanimation Package of Reforms Coalition for 2026.

Yevhen Kostohryzov, a student at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), examined the legal and political mechanisms that could lead to restricting or stripping Russia of its UN membership and its seat as a permanent member of the Security Council. The essay was submitted to the #UnRussiaUN competition organized by the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation NGO have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation that defines priority areas of work in strengthening Ukrainian national and civic identity and youth policy.

On June 19, 2026, the online Student-Diplomat Roundtable “AI, War, and Ethics: Can Technology Be Neutral?” will take place. The event is organized by the Ukrainian-Gulf Cooperation Platform and the NGO “Diplomacy in Action.” The roundtable brings together diplomats, scholars, representatives of state institutions, local self-government bodies, international organizations, and student youth to discuss one of the most pressing challenges of our time — the impact of artificial intelligence on war, international security, law, and diplomacy.

In February 2022, when the UN Security Council convened an emergency session following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, no one truly expected a different outcome. Russia said “no” — and blocked any resolution. One vote. One permanent member. And the complete helplessness of an organization founded precisely to prevent such things from ever happening again. That moment was not merely a symbol of a particular diplomatic failure — it exposed a structural pathology embedded since 1945: the international collective security system proved architecturally incapable of responding to aggressio…

The “Roots and Wings: History That Unites” project by the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation has become one of 14 winners of the all-Ukrainian competition “Bridges of Solidarity with Ukraine,” implemented by the “Social Capital” program of the International Renaissance Foundation. The competition aims at institutional strengthening of Ukrainian educational and civic hubs in Northern Europe and the Baltic states. A total of 180 applications were submitted.

Author: Ruslana Petrivna Kistechok, 3rd-year student of the “International Relations, Social Communications and Regional Studies” programme, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University