Mikhail Podolyak, top advisor to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that Zelenskyy will now adopt a “resilience plan,” evidently a successor to their vaunted “victory plan,” aimed at lifting morale, according to The Sunday Times of London. It quoted Podolyak as saying that it will take “into account the psycho-emotional state the country is in.... We need to show clearly how we will prioritize investment in industry, how the energy sector will function, how we will communicate army mobilization, strengthen physical defense—all the most painful issues relating to the country’s sustainability are being worked out.”
Given the state of the economy, the lack of electricity, the significant resistance to being drafted, and the signals of a breakdown in the physical defense at the front lines, it will be no small issue to keep his boss from being booted out this winter. The Sunday Times observes two of the difficulties: “The resilience plan will cover how Ukraine will prioritize investment in industry and how the energy sector will function as a freezing winter looms.”
