On March 15, 2022, the students of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Trieste, coordinated by Eleonora Fioravanti and Davide Rotondaro, organized a discussion meeting on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and its repercussions on Europe, attended by Giulia Caccamo, historian of international relations, Giuseppe Ieraci, political scientist, and Cesare La Mantia, historian of Eastern Europe. This Forum presents the transcript of the questions posed by the two editors and other students to the three scholars and their answers. We wanted to keep the original format of the debate – apart from the necessary editorial interventions - and the reader, therefore, should consider that the most recent developments of the war may not be included.]