My appointment as Ukraine’s new Minister of Defense in early November coincided with a wave of mounting international concern over Russia’s latest military build-up along the Ukrainian border. This concentration of troops and armor is consistent with preparations for a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in the coming months. As the…

Six months of heroic resistance to the full-scale Russian invasion proved the invincibility of spirit of the Ukrainian people and the remarkable professionalism of all components of the Ukrainian defence forces: the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence, the…

August 24 is Ukrainian Independence Day. For the first time in three decades since Ukraine regained its independence, there was a real danger this year that the holiday would not take place at all. Exactly six months earlier on February 24, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the country with…

(The Atlantic Council platform, July 19, 2022. Speech by Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defence, Ukraine). Greetings, everyone. I would like to thank the Atlantic Council for our cooperation, which is in its third year now. I appreciate the opportunity to present the Ukrainian perspective at your platform. I would also…

(Платформа Atlantic Council, 19 липня 2022. Промова міністра оборони України Олексія Резнікова). Напочатку хочу подякувати AtlanticCoucil за співпрацю. Вона триває вже третій рік. Ціную можливість представити позицію України на вашому майданчику. Також дякую справжньому другу України — Послу Джону Хербсту за особистий внесок в підтримку нашої держави. У моєму виступі…

NATO leaders will gather in the Spanish capital at the end of June for a potentially historic summit. They are expected to approve a landmark new Strategic Concept at a time when the Russian invasion of Ukraine has created the most dramatic international security challenges for a generation. …

Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job — The defence minister of a country under invasion doesn’t have much time for reading, but Oleksii Reznikov makes a point of studying the front pages. He is concerned by what he sees. “Either the world doesn’t quite understand what is happening,” he says, “or it does understand, is tired, and…

Минуло 46 днів з початку широкомасштабного нападу Росії на Україну Today I want to address all the friends and partners of our people. And talk about what’s happening. Contrary to many predictions, Russia has failed to break through our defences in three or 30 days. On the contrary. Our soldiers…

Interview for RBC-Ukraine. Original text in Ukrainian here https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/aleksey-reznikov-tsel-kremlya-ukraina-hotyat-1645047561.html/amp • Judging by the headlines in the Western media in recent days, you and I must now conduct this interview deep underground in a bunker. What went ‘wrong’? I am staying in the country. My family, my close friends and relatives — no one has fled anywhere, although we were promised there would be an invasion on the 15th, then the 16th… Everybody was saying that there would be…