Ukraine in Europe Initiative

The Ukraine in Europe Initiative is designed to galvanize international support for an independent, secure Ukraine. Since 2014, the Eurasia Center has helped strengthen Ukraine’s security and advance transformational reforms—crucial elements of the country’s resistance to the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. UkraineAlert is the Center’s flagship newsletter, delivering cutting-edge analysis and reporting to policymakers and influencers.

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Ukraine in Europe Initiative

UkraineAlert Sep 3, 2026

Putin cannot defeat NATO but he could divide and discredit the alliance

By Peter Dickinson

If Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to attack NATO, his goal will be to divide and discredit the alliance rather than actually defeating it, writes Peter Dickinson.
Conflict Defense Policy
Ukraine in Europe Initiative

UkraineAlert Aug 27, 2026

Ukrainians are not superheroes with endless powers of resilience

By Lauren Van Metre, Elena Davlikanova

By celebrating Ukrainian resilience as an almost superhuman quality, the international community risks obscuring the much less glamorous reality that Ukrainians are actually ordinary people who have endured extraordinary violence for far too long, write Lauren Van Metre and Elena Davlikanova.
Civil Society Conflict
Ukraine in Europe Initiative

UkraineAlert Aug 25, 2026

A cultural renaissance is reshaping national identity in wartime Ukraine

By Davis Richardson

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is fueling a defiant cultural outpouring that is redefining and strengthening Ukrainian national identity in ways that challenge centuries of Kremlin imperialism, writes Davis Richardson.
Civil Society Conflict

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UkraineAlert

Oct 3, 2024

Ukraine is slowly but steadily weakening Russia’s grip on Crimea

By Serhii Kuzan

With international attention firmly fixed on the Russian army’s advances in eastern Ukraine and the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine is also making progress toward weakening Russia's grip on Crimea, writes Serhii Kuzan.

Conflict Defense Policy

UkraineAlert

Oct 3, 2024

Kyiv’s allies should boost Ukraine’s ability to strike deep inside Russia

By David Kirichenko

With Kyiv's partners still reluctant to lift restrictions on attacks inside Russia using Western weapons, one obvious solution would be to enhance Ukraine's ability to strike Russian targets using domestically-produced Ukrainian weapons, writes David Kirichenko.

Conflict Defense Industry

UkraineAlert

Oct 1, 2024

Ukraine needs international investors to maintain defense tech momentum

By Mykhailo Fedorov

Ukraine's rapidly expanding defense tech sector can play a game-changing role in the war against Russia but Ukrainian companies need international investment, writes Ukraine's Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov.

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UkraineAlert

Oct 1, 2024

Russia’s political prisoners must not be forgotten

By Leonid Gozman

The international community must not forget the more than one thousand Russian political prisoners currently incarcerated by the Kremlin, writes Leonid Gozman.

Conflict Freedom and Prosperity

UkraineAlert

Sep 26, 2024

Putin will keep escalating his nuclear blackmail until it stops working

By Peter Dickinson

More than two and half years since the start of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, it should now be abundantly clear that Vladimir Putin will continue escalating his nuclear blackmail until it stops working, writes Peter Dickinson.

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