The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization welcomes Victoria Vdovychenko, a widely recognized and published expert on the issues of hybrid warfare, strategic communication, with particular emphasis on relations between Ukraine and the European Union as well as NATO, to Colgate for a lecture and discussion on “Winning the Future: US, Europe, and Ukraine” livestreamed from 4:30–6 p.m. May 1. Register via Zoom to join the event.

Victoria Vdovychenko is a widely recognized and published expert on the issues of hybrid warfare, strategic communication, with particular emphasis on relations between Ukraine and the European Union as well as NATO.

Victoria has a MSc and PhD in Foreign Policy and World History from the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine and is currently a Visiting Fellow within the British Academy and a co-lead of the Future of Ukraine Program at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge.

She is working on the challenges of the European Union, Euro-Atlantic integration, hybrid warfare, strategic communication. She was a Team Lead for the Assistance Advisory Team working with VPM on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration on the future of ANP Ukraine-NATO as well as on the system of LI&LL from the resilience of Ukraine.

She is a co-author of policy papers, “Ukraine Scenarios 2032” (2025), “Firewalling the Future” (2025), “Winning the Future: Strategies for Resilient Ukraine and Europe” (2025), “Ukraine under Zelenskyy: Domestic, Foreign and Security Policy in Flux” (2022), “Willingness to fight for Ukraine: Lessons for the Baltic states” (2022), “Resilience Paper Review” (2022) and “Shaping up social resistance: Zelenskyy’s approach to rearranging Ukraine” (2023).

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