Operations is the part nobody photographs. Flights and visas for veterans travelling out of a country at war, hotel blocks, the golf tee sheet, the running order of three forums across three days, the sponsors who need answering, and the hundred small decisions that turn an idea into a room full of people. Ievgen Krasovytskyi runs that side of The Borderlands Foundation — the processes behind the Summit and the Foundation’s programs.
He also runs the Ukraine Military History Institute, the Foundation’s history program in Kyiv, founded by Samuel Cook. Its remit is wide — a university course, workshops for serving officers, a professional journal, soldier delegations — but its most public face is the Ukraine Military History Podcast, long-form interviews with the soldiers, analysts and commanders fighting and studying this war, filmed mostly in Kyiv.
Krasovytskyi produces it end to end: eighteen episodes published so far, hosted by Cook with co-hosts Rob Lee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Dmytro Putiata, a veteran sergeant of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces. Episodes have carried first-hand accounts of Mariupol and Russian captivity, the drone war, and the arguments inside Ukraine’s own command.
The Foundation’s stated mission is to make sure Ukraine’s heroes are never forgotten — which is an operations problem as much as a moral one. A conference ends, the room empties, and the arguments made in it evaporate. That is a waste when the people making them have come from the front line to be heard.
He was not at the London Summit. He built its archive regardless, from the recordings, transcripts and photographs that came back: all 22 sessions with video, verified speaker lineups, key takeaways and quotes; the keynotes by Boris Johnson and Gen. H.R. McMaster; the veterans’ interviews; the photography from the three forum days and the charity golf tournament that opened them. A permanent, free, public record that policymakers, journalists and funders can still cite years from now.
What these people said should still be findable long after the room emptied.
He travels with the delegation to Dallas on 16–19 November 2026 — the groundwork trip for the 3rd Ukraine Freedom Summit, which comes to Texas in March 2027.
