Speaker: Professor Randall Stone and Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester.

After almost eight years of occupying parts of Ukraine and perpetuating a shadow war in its eastern provinces, Russia has mobilized 130,000 troops on the Ukrainian border and made far-reaching demands that would roll back NATO and carve out a Russian sphere of influence in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin’s true objectives remain obscure, even to his top diplomats. Will he invade Ukraine again, and if so, where will he stop?