Ukraine

Europe & Eurasia

In February 2022, Moscow launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine after a months-long military build-up, threatening the country’s sovereignty and its future. This existential moment for the country follows the 2014 Maidan revolution, a nexus for Ukraine’s Europe-focused foreign policy and reform efforts. The ensuing Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea, aggression in Ukraine’s east, and Kremlin disinformation efforts, cast a shadow over Ukraine’s independence.

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Zagorodnyuk in Foreign Policy: Four years of war in Europe

New Atlanticist Dec 4, 2024

A winning strategy to end Russia’s war against Ukraine

More than a dozen experts from the United States and Europe share their recommendations to the incoming Trump administration about how best to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Russia Tomorrow Jan 8, 2025

Sanctioned kleptocracy: How Putin’s kremligarchs have survived the war—and even prospered

By Ilya Zaslavskiy

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series explores how Russia’s kleptocratic networks infiltrated the West and measures the US and Europe can take to combat the malign influence of Russian kleptocracy around the globe.

Corruption Economy & Business

UkraineAlert Jan 14, 2025

No peace without security: Ukraine needs guarantees against new Russian invasion

By Peter Dickinson

Ukraine is ready to make territorial concessions but insists that any peace deal must include credible long-term security guarantees to prevent a new Russian invasion, writes Peter Dickinson.

Conflict European Union

Ukraine response

Founded sixty years ago at the height of Cold War tensions with Moscow, the Atlantic Council is driven by our mission of “shaping the global future together.” The Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world in partnership with allies and partners. Building on that mission, we have responded quickly and comprehensively to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, harnessing our editorial and convening power to help the United States and its allies to act swiftly and effectively—and to unify the disparate voices in favor of democracy, prosperity, and the transatlantic alliance.

Events

Public Event Fri, March 13, 2026 • 10:30 am ET

Ukraine’s human capital and the foundations of recovery and long-term security

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia Resilience & Society Russia

Online Event Thu, March 5, 2026 • 11:00 am ET

How should the United States approach the China-Russia partnership?

China Europe & Eurasia Politics & Diplomacy Russia

Public Event Fri, February 6, 2026 • 11:00 am ET

How Moscow manufactured the myth of Putin’s inevitable victory

Artificial Intelligence Disinformation Europe & Eurasia Internet

The Eurasia Center’s mission is to enhance transatlantic cooperation in promoting stability, democratic values, and prosperity in Eurasia, from Eastern Europe and Turkey in the West to the Caucasus, Russia, and Central Asia in the East.

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

UkraineAlert

Mar 19, 2026

Putin is counting on Western disunity to hand him victory in Ukraine

By Mykola Bielieskov

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been unable to defeat the Ukrainians on the battlefield but he remains confident that Western disunity will ultimately hand him victory in Ukraine, writes Mykola Bielieskov.

Research Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Disinformation Eastern Europe

Events

Public Event Mon, March 30, 2026 • 2:00 pm ET

Report launch: How the West lost the post-Cold War era

Central Europe Eastern Europe Europe & Eurasia Politics & Diplomacy

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Ukraine

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War in Ukraine

A winning strategy to end Russia’s war against Ukraine

Sanctioned kleptocracy: How Putin’s kremligarchs have survived the war—and even prospered

No peace without security: Ukraine needs guarantees against new Russian invasion

Ukraine response

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Regular news and analysis from Ukraine

Events

Ukraine’s human capital and the foundations of recovery and long-term security

How should the United States approach the China-Russia partnership?

How Moscow manufactured the myth of Putin’s inevitable victory

Content

Zagorodnyuk in Foreign Policy: Four years of war in Europe

Temnycky in Forbes: How Ukraine’s youth organizations have been impacted by Russia’s war

Temnycky in Forbes: Hungary creates rift with EU and Ukraine over Russian energy sanctions

Karatnycky in the American Spectator: Russia’s vulnerabilities and Trump’s chance for peace in Ukraine

Karatnycky in Foreign Policy: Ukraine and the paradox of national conservatism

Hook in the Hill: Business with dictators is a security risk America has fallen for before

Hook in the Hill: No peace in Ukraine until Russia returns its children

Bociurkiw in the Globe and Mail: Ukraine has earned the right to shape its own future. Washington and Moscow are denying it that right

Bociurkiw in the Globe and Mail: Four years into the war, Ukraine has endured – and it has been transformed

Putin is counting on Western disunity to hand him victory in Ukraine

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Michael Bociurkiw

Ian Brzezinski

Eto Buziashvili

Events

Report launch: How the West lost the post-Cold War era

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