Mykhailo SamusUkrainian security experts have decided to join efforts to create a powerful center that should help the government assess, forecast risks and overcome them.
These developments were presented during the Roundtable “A New Stage of the War with Russia: In Search of Security Guarantees for Ukraine. Internal Resilience Plan,” organized by the Consortium for Defence Information together with the Ukraine Crisis Media Center.
The experts presented the concept of their Victory Plan and discussed key components of increasing the country’s resilience in the war imposed on it by Russia, including issues of strategy, the defense-industrial complex, countering information threats, and the social component. The experts also shared their vision of how the situation will develop in 2025.
SPEAKERS:
⦁ Valeriy Chaly, Chairman of the Board of Ukraine Crisis Media Center; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
⦁ Valentyn Badrak, Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies; co-founder of the Consortium for Defence Information
⦁ Serhiy Zhurets, Director of the Defense Express IKK; co-founder of the Consortium for Defence Information
⦁ Mykhailo Samus, Director of the New Geopolitics Research Network; co-founder of the Consortium for Defence Information
⦁ Oleksiy Yizhak, National Institute for Strategic Studies; co-founder of the Consortium for Defence Information (online)
⦁ Mykola Kniazhytskyi, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Supervisory Board of the Consortium for Defence Information
⦁ Volodymyr Havrylov, Major General, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, 2022-2023
⦁ Ihor Fomenko, General Director, All-Ukrainian Association of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine Defense
⦁ Vasyl Pekhno, moderator, journalist
00:00 Introduction
02:40 About the topic of the discussion and its participants
06:00 How the idea of the Defense Information Consortium arose
10:31 Why the expert community decided to develop the Victory plan
15:07 Structure of the Plan
16:29 What steps are planned to be taken next
24:30 Why are the country’s best analysts united
26:46 How state institutions abroad work with analytics
32:32 Does information from alternative sources reach government offices
42:42 Ukraine has proven that it is able to adapt to new challenges
45:29 For the Russian Federation, we are like a bone in the throat
49:46 Strategic components of deterrence forces
52:44 Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of the Plan
01:00:43 The influence of mass and social media
01:03:48 Discussion of situation in the defense-industrial complex
01:19:17 Justice and mobilization
01:24:25 Responsibility factor in the army
01:27:23 The enemy used our mistakes in organizing the process
01:31:36 The use of technology in the defense industry
01:33:54 The front determines what will happen in politics
01:37:46 Що має робити Україна What should Ukraine do
01:48:05 Analysis of the resource component. Where to get the funds?