The first meeting of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council since the dismissal of Secretary Oleksiy Danilov was held on March 29, said President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky said “renewed work” was underway and five priorities had been set for the body, primarily a better ability to predict factors “on which the national security of our state depends.” The National Security and Defense Council is a body that coordinates and controls the activities of executive authorities in the field of Ukraine’s national security and defense, and its decisions are enacted by presidential decrees. O…