Year 2026

Agnė Žekonytė is an Adviser at Planning and Analysis unit at the Strategic Communications and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania, working on information threats and the concept of cognitive warfare, and…

Mykola Ivanovych Torianyk is Mayor of Khotin and Head of the Khotin Settlement Council in Sumy District, Ukraine, a border community, a post he has held since 2016. He initiated a volunteer territorial defence formation in the first days of…

Žygimantas Solovjovas is Head of the Preparedness Division of the Vilnius City Municipality and a Lithuanian officer with over 16 years of service in the Voluntary National Defence Force (KASP). A participant in the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, he…