Status of the War in Ukraine

Observations from my latest visit, Part 1

Image: President of Ukraine website

In the past week, I conducted another visit to Ukraine. I travelled with a small team of colleagues from the Washington DC-based Centre for Strategic and international Studies (CSIS) and the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). Our visit included meetings with government and non-government organisations, including the following:

• The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.

• Ukrainian Military Intelligence.

• The Ukrainian Committee for National Security and Defence.

• The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office.

• The Ukrainian Ministry of Strategic Industries.

• Non-government agencies. This included organisations that are developing advanced technologies including drones and digitised command and control capabilities such as the Rapid Capabilities Group and Come Back Alive, as well as the Centre for Defence Strategies (with a focus on the impact of current and next generation drones), and the Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security.

Over the next week, I will publish a series of short articles here for subscribers that describe the insights I gained from this visit. There were many. But perhaps the most important was related to the strategy for the war.