From February 9 to February 11, OSCE High-Level Military Doctrine Seminar was taking place in Vienna. During the seminar, the Ukrainian delegation to the OSCE informed the participants about the assessments of external threats, primarily from Russia, to both European and the national security of Ukraine. The aforesaid threats were previously presented in the White Paper of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
This was reported by the Ukrinforn.
OSCE High-Level Military Doctrine has taken place via videoconference. The seminar was chaired by the representative of the United States.
In Vienna, Permanent OSCE Representative of Ukraine, Igor Lossovsky, noted that the White Paper bulletin is the first White Paper in the history of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence. In particular, the document assesses the main external threats to Ukraine's national security in foreign policy, economic, information, and cybersecurity. The attention was paid to the role and place of Ukraine as a European Democracy.
"The main source of threats to European security and national security of Ukraine is and will remain in the coming years the course chosen by the Russian leadership to consolidate the status of a global player for Russia and recognize the so-called Russian interests," the Ukrainian diplomat quoted one of the conclusions of the White Paper.
The representative of Ukraine drew the attention of foreign delegations to certain conceptual elements of the document of Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence, which assesses the main trends in the modern complex security architecture.
The White Paper’s forecasts of the Ukrainian intelligence officers say that "the Kremlin will continue tactics of "raising rates" in the military and political confrontation, will manipulate European security problems (hyperbolizing the role of the Russian Federation in countering uncontrolled migration, terrorist and cybernetic attacks), and will also fuel the processes of disintegration of Europe (by financial support to populists and radicals and provoking economic separatism of individual EU states".
At the same time, Moscow will undermine the activities of the institutional component of the European security architecture, trying to encourage the international community, primarily the EU countries, to "jointly" develop options for legitimizing the de facto balance of power. In order to ensure this development, the Russian Federation will continue to impose phobias on European countries related to the deployment of the latest offensive strike weapons near the EU borders.
After the meeting, the Ukrainian Mission to the OSCE distributed to foreign delegations of the participating countries the full text of the speech with the key points of the White Paper on the assessment of threats to both national security of Ukraine and international security.