On 26–27 February 2018, in Berlin, took place the regular trilateral expert meeting "Development in the Situation of Long-Term Crisis (5th Year of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict)", organised by Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The meeting was attended by Ukrainian, German and Russian experts, who discussed the tendencies in the development of domestic situations in Ukraine and Russia, events in the occupied territories of Donbas, geopolitical factors that affect the Russia-Ukraine conflict dynamic. Forum participants paid particular attention to the issues of preventing conflict escalation, forecasts for further developments in the relations between Kyiv and Moscow.
At the expert meeting, Co-director of the Foreign Policy and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykhailo Pashkov presented a report titled "Current State and Prospects of Donbas Situation Development", in which he talked about the socio-economic, political-ideological and military aspects of the situation in the occupied territories, outlined scenarios of further conflict development in the East of Ukraine.