Aim and Scope

The scientific journal “Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Military and Special Sciences” aims to promote and disseminate the scientific achievements of the Ukrainian and international academic communities on topical issues in military pedagogy, military psychology, military journalism, international relations in the military domain, social support in the Defence Forces of Ukraine, military political science, and geospatial support of troops.

Types of publications: editor’s note, research articles, review articles, reviews and critiques, and corrections.

The journal serves as a forum for discussion, analysis and coverage of current research in military pedagogy, military psychology, military journalism, international relations in the military domain, social support in the Defence Forces of Ukraine, military political science, and geospatial support of troops.

The journal publishes articles from the following areas:

  • military education;
  • professional training of military specialists;
  • psychological support for personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other security and defence forces;
  • social and psychological support for military personnel’s families;
  • operational psychology;
  • reintegration and post-isolation support for individuals in forced isolation (including military captivity);
  • professional support for psychologists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other security and defence forces;
  • theory, methodology and history of military journalism;
  • information and media support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine activities;
  • military public relations;
  • training of military journalists and public relations specialists;
  • geopolitical issues;
  • international cooperation in the defence domain;
  • international security in the military-political, military-economic and information domains;
  • theoretical and methodological issues of social support;
  • social support in combat conditions;
  • organisational and managerial aspects of social support for military personnel and their families;
  • cognitive, information and hybrid warfare;
  • organisation, preparation, conduct and sustainment of resistance movement cells, national resistance;
  • military-political leadership;
  • strategic and crisis communications;
  • AI modelling and political mobilisation of the population;
  • military topography, geodesy, cartography and geography;
  • geospatial and navigational support for military units and sub-units