Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bonn and Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies. He taught at the Free as well as Humboldt University of Berlin, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Cologne. He has given policy advice to Germany's Chancellery, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Parliament, as well as the European Parliament, OSCE, NATO, and EU. Dmitry Durnev is an independent journalist in Ukraine who has been working for Open Democracy, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Spektr Press, and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Formerly, he was editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets - Donbass. Julia Friedrich is Research Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin and was a visiting fellow at the Razumkov Centre in Kyiv. Her research has focused on security dynamics in Russia and Ukraine, the impact of the Donbas War on social cohesion in eastern Ukraine, and the reintegration of veterans into Ukrainian society. Sergey Savchenko, Lt. Gen. (Ret.), heads the Analytical Center for the Study and Counteraction to Hybrid Threats in Kyiv. In 2004-05, he was Deputy Head of the Multi-National Division South-Centre in Iraq, and, in 2014-16, he participated in Ukraine's Anti-Terrorist Operation against Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas.