What does Ukraine need to win? What must the West do to help? Discussion with Dr. Omar Ashour

What does Ukraine need to win? What must the West do to help? And how is Vladimir Putin using the situation in the Middle East to gain an advantage in the war in Ukraine? These and other questions were answered in the UNITED24 studio by Dr. Omar Ashour, professor of Military and Security Studies at the University of Exeter and the Doha institue in Qatar, Non-resident research fellow at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation.

For example, Dr. Ashour has found data, that while Russia was fighting a proxy war in Syria 2015-2022, they would escalate the conflict in Ukraine as a negotiation tool with the USA.

About Dr. Ashour

Before becoming a professor, he served as a senior consultant for the United Nations on security sector reform, counter-terrorism, and de-radicalisation issues (2009-2012). He is a regular contributor to media outlets including the BBC, al-Jazeera, Sky News, CNN and others. His op-eds were published in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Independent, al-Jazeera.net, CNN.com, Project Syndicate and other media outlets in 12 languages, in over 60 countries.