A career officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladyslav Klochkov commanded the 93rd Mechanized Brigade — one of Ukraine's most storied combat units — before rising to serve as the army's Chief of Morale & Psychological Support (2021–2024): the man responsible for the fighting spirit of an army at war, through the hardest years of the full-scale invasion. He holds a PhD in combat psychological resilience — the science of what keeps soldiers standing.
Ukraine faces a wave of psychological trauma without precedent in modern Europe. Millions of veterans — and the families who wait for them — will carry the war home long after the fighting ends. The systems to help them barely exist.
Klochkov is building them. As Director of the Ukraine Center for Traumatic Stress — a program of the Borderlands Foundation — he leads Ukraine's first systematic platform for recovery from the psychological cost of war: research, clinical therapy, education, and social support in one system, with special attention to the 69,000 women serving in Ukraine's armed forces.
“The opening of the Center is our duty to those who risked their lives for Ukraine.”
At the London 2025 Summit, Klochkov spoke twice. On the Transforming Trauma into Strength panel he presented the Center and the scale of the projected mental-health crisis — and what it will take to meet it: triage, qualified specialists, research, and international cooperation. And on the military-history panel, he put the whole mission in one sentence:
“Those who don't remember their history don't have a future.”
This November, he joins the delegation to Dallas and Washington, D.C. — carrying the case for Ukraine's veterans directly to America. The road to Dallas →
