<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/yalta-european-strategy.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>10/17/2025</pubDate><title>National Security Professor Participates in High Level International Conference with Ukrainian President, Global Leaders, Academics</title><description>Olena Lennon, Ph.D., an internationally recognized scholar on Ukrainian politics, said it is vitally important for American educators to be in the rooms where policy is discussed because they are teaching the next generation of global national security leaders.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey, Contributing Writer</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>October 17, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/lee-college/news/2025/lennon-yes-kyiv-6.jpg" alt="The 'Wall of Remembrance' on the outer walls of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv dedicated to Ukrainian soldiers who died in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, September 2025. Photo credit: Olena Lennon"/></image><image-caption>The 'Wall of Remembrance' on the outer walls of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv dedicated to Ukrainian soldiers who died in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, September 2025. Photo credit: Olena Lennon</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-lee-college</tag><tag>dept-national-security</tag><tag>name-olena-lennon</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>