Centre for Defence Strategies

Poorly trained recruits contribute to loss of Ukrainian territory on eastern front, commanders say

Viktor Kevliuk, a military expert with the Ukraine-based Center for Defense Strategies think tank, said the training offered to recruits is adequate. He said brigade commanders “are looking for an explanation for tactical failures.”

26.08.2024 Read more
Ukraine’s former deputy defense minister analyzes cross-border attacks and their impact on the war

CNN’s Becky Anderson interviews Alina Frolova, Ukraine’s former Deputy Minister of Defense, about recent Ukrainian attacks inside Russia and their strategic implications for the ongoing war. Learn more on CNN

15.08.2024 Read more
The lack of international attention to the actions of the russian occupiers in Crimea led to the spread of these negative practices in the rest of the occupied territories – Alina Frolova

This year, representatives of 15 countries have taken part in the International Forum of the International Crimea Platform Expert Network, indicating a high level of interest in the topic of Crimea and the Black Sea.

26.06.2024 Read more

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Chairman, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020), Head of the MOD Reforms Project Office (2015–2018), Adviser to the President of Ukraine, Member of the Supervisory Board of Ukroboronprom, volunteer. Has over 20 years of experience in the field of heavy industry and industrial engineering.

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020), Adviser to the Ministry of Defence (2015–2016), Adviser to the Ministry of Information Policy (2016–2018), founder of the «Invictus Games Team Ukraine Project», Stratcom.UA and UCMC.

Oleksandr Kharchenko

Economic and energy security expert, Managing Director of the Energy Industry Research Center. At various times, served as an adviser to the Government and the National Security and Defence Council staff, as well as to the parliamentary committees, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and Naftogaz Ukrainy management.

Volodymyr Ohryzko

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007–2009), First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (2009–2010), Diplomat, a think tank Chairman, Сentre for Russian Studies

Oleksii Martseniuk

Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020), public activist, investment and asset management specialist. Has years of experience, inter alia, in the senior executive positions, in the leading international and Ukrainian investment companies

General Wesley Clark

A US Army General. For 34 years served in the army and the US Department of Defence, receiving numerous military awards, honorary knighthoods and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1997 to 2000, commanded NATO forces in Kosovo

Ambassador William Taylor

An American diplomat, civil servant and serviceman. A US chargé d’affaires ad interim for Ukraine (2019– 2020) and US Ambassador to Ukraine (2006–2009). A decorated Vietnam War veteran

Phil Jones

Served as a civilian official of the British Ministry of Defence, a UK Special Defence Adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (2014–2018) and an Adviser to the Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2020). Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Dr. Neville Bolt

Professor of the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, Director of the King’s Centre for Strategic Communications and Editor- in-Chief of Defence Strategic Communications, the peer reviewed academic journal of NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Alexander Khara

Diplomat, foreign affairs and security policy expert, Assistant Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2020), fomer expert of the «Maidan of Foreign Affairs» think tank, official of the Office of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Arthur Pereverziev

Defence procurement expert. Adviser to the Minister of Defence (2019–2020), expert of the MOD Reforms Project Office (2015–2020), head of the state Defence Procurement Reform project, Adviser to the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (2014), public activist

Victor Kevlyuk

Colonel, Reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 35 years of military service, head of the Organization and Mobilization Department of the Operational Command West Headquarters (2014–2018), head of the Centre of the Civil-military Cooperation of the Joint Operation Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2018–2020)

Olesya Favorska

Expert of the Centre for Defence Strategies

Oleksii Pavliuchyk

Deputy Chief of Strategic Planning Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (2018-2020)

Richard Cashman

British barrister and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Graduate of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Served with the British contingent to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

Victoria Vdovychenko

Director of Security and International Advocacy. With 15 years of experience and extensive research in the fields of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, as well as issues of hybrid warfare and strategic communications. Lectures and conducts research within such institutions as the University of Bologna, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Germany), the Catholic University of Louivan (Belgium), and the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Lesia Ogryzko

Head of Analytics and Strategic Advocacy in the Center, expert in international relations and international security. Has worked in Ukraine's Government and in international organisations, including the UN system

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Експертка Центру оборонних стратегій. Сфера досліджень — Східна та Південно-Східна Азія

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War and Words: Effective Communication Strategies in Conflict

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

We're not going to make stupid mistakes

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020)

Esponenti del think tank ucraino Center for Defence Strategies

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The first Black Sea Security Conference of the International Crimean Platform started in Bucharest

April 12-13, 2023. Results

Results of the First Black Sea Security Conference of the International Crimean Platform

Media Center Ukraine - Ukrinform

Behind the scenes of the "information warfare"

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

Ukraine war: one year on

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020)

Why is the influence of the "Third Pole" and "Global South" increasing? Reasons why Russia has succeeded in “incorporation”

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

Ukraine timeline: four seasons of war in under four minutes

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

About the course of the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine on the air of the Middle Eastern media

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

Will it be possible to agree on the exchange of prisoners between russia and Ukraine?

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

Russian army is extremely exhausted... This is the Ukrainian strategy / SBS

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020)

#2022 NEWSWEEK DEFENSE SUMMIT

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020)

The massive missile attack on Ukraine is not related to the Crimean bridge, it is related to the general situation on the front line

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020)

Missile and rocket attacks hit cities across Ukraine

Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020)

About rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

About the explosion on the Crimean bridge

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

About the bombing of the Crimean bridge

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies

The fate of Taiwan depends on Ukraine

Alina Frolova

Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies