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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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War in Ukraine

Experts from across the Atlantic Council are assessing the consequences of Russia’s February 2022 invasion, including what it means for Ukraine’s sovereignty, Europe’s security, and the United States’ leadership.

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Ukraine’s New Government: Here’s What to Expect

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.

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Ukraine’s New Government: Here’s What to Expect

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

Ukraine’s New Government: Here’s What to Expect

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.

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Regular news and analysis from Ukraine

UkraineAlert sources insight and commentary from a wide-array of thought-leaders, politicians, experts, and activists from Ukraine and the global community.

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Events

Online Event
Thu, June 18, 2026 • 12:00 pm ET

Is Russia losing the war?

Eastern Europe
Europe & Eurasia
Politics & Diplomacy
Russia

Public Event
Mon, June 15, 2026 • 12:30 pm ET

How should the United States counter Russia and China’s hybrid warfare?

China
East Asia
Eastern Europe
Europe & Eurasia

Online Event
Fri, June 5, 2026 • 10:00 am ET

Russia’s illicit exploitation of foreign nationals for its war against Ukraine

Europe & Eurasia
Human Rights
Resilience & Society
Russia

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.

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UkraineAlert

Nov 3, 2014

Ukraine’s New Government: Here’s What to Expect

By New Atlanticist

Amid Horse-Trading by Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, a New Parliament Speaker Is Likely The Atlantic Council’s Kyiv-based senior fellow, Brian Mefford, writes on the likely makeup of Ukraine’s post-election government. His key observations are below, and you can read his detailed analysis on his own blog.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

UkraineAlert

Nov 3, 2014

Russian-Ukraine Gas Deal Gives Moscow the Leverage and Europe the Energy

By John E. Herbst

Ukrainians Will Get Gas, Too, But Their Cost and Risk of Cutoffs Remain High European Union leaders in Brussels may be celebrating the gas deal signed Thursday between Ukraine and Russia as an assurance of Russian gas supplies to Europe this winter, but Ukrainians can at best take cold comfort from the agreement. EU Energy […]

Eastern Europe Energy & Environment

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Oct 31, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | October 31

By Jim Rupert

In Russian, Historians Join Kremlin’s Campaign to Label Ukraine ‘Nazi’ via Time Kyivans Rally for Reconstruction of Cinema Torched Amid Screening of LGBT Film via Kyiv Post Photo Essay: Chasing Vote Fraud and Dodging Attack in a Ukrainian Village via Quartz Video, Maps: The Brutal ‘Cease-Fire War’ Over Donetsk’s Airport via Washington Post Russian Movie Star Visits Donbas as ‘Journalist’—and Joins the War via Mashable

Ukraine

In the News

Oct 31, 2014

Koranyi on Russian-Ukrainian Interim Gas Supply Agreement

By David Koranyi

Oil and Gas Journal quotes Eurasia Center Deputy Director David Koranyi on the interim gas supply agreement between Russia and Ukraine:

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UkraineAlert

Oct 31, 2014

Ukraine Gas Deal May Show That the West’s Sanctions on Russia Are Working

By James Rupert

The gas supply deal signed in Brussels yesterday among Russia, Ukraine and the European Union “is perhaps the clearest indication yet that sanctions imposed on Russia are working in terms of changing Russia’s behavior,” writes Timothy Ash, an economist who directs emerging markets strategy at Standard Bank in London.

Eastern Europe Energy & Environment

UkraineAlert

Oct 30, 2014

Russian-Backed ‘People’s Republics’ in Ukraine Prepare Elections for Sunday

By James Rupert

Donetsk, Lugansk Vote for ‘Parliaments’ Violates Truce and Raises Risks, Say Analysts The Russian-backed, miniature, “people’s republics” declared in southeastern Ukraine are preparing to elect parliaments and heads of state on Sunday, a step backed by Moscow to consolidate their self-declared statehood. Those elections promise to further undermine the already wobbly political deal that underpins […]

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British and Estonian troops participating in Steadfast Javelin, May 18, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 30, 2014

SACEUR: Adapting NATO at the Speed of its 21st Century Challenges

By Philip Breedlove, Allied Command Operations

Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine, and the violence of ISIL, threaten Europe in new ways and underscore the need for a new model of NATO responsiveness.

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Webcasts

Oct 29, 2014

The Menace of Unreality: Combatting Russian Disinformation in the Twenty-First Century

By Atlantic Council

Russia’s unconventional war on Ukraine is being fought largely with an unprecedented disinformation campaign on television, via online forums, and on internet media across Europe. By manipulating facts and integrating outright lies into mainstream narratives, the Russian government seeks to influence public opinion and shape Western policy. An Atlantic Council panel discussion organized with the […]

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Event Recap

Oct 29, 2014

Conference Call: Ukraine Votes

By Atlantic Council

On October 28, the Atlantic Council hosted an on-the-record conference call on Ukraine’s recent parliamentary elections. The call featured John Herbst, director of the Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, and Adrian Karatnycky, senior fellow in the Council’s Transatlantic Relations Program and former CEO of Freedom House. It was moderated by Damon Wilson, executive vice president […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Oct 29, 2014

Karatnycky on Leadership in Ukraine

By Adrian Karatnycky

The New York Times quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on the relationship between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk:

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Experts

Fellow

Lukas Andriukaitis

Nonresident Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Disinformation Eastern Europe

Fellow

Tyson Barker

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

Fellow

Phyllis Berry

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Europe & Eurasia France

Fellow

Michael Bociurkiw

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Ukraine International Organizations

Fellow

Ian Brzezinski

Senior Fellow

Europe Center Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Central Europe Defense Policy

Staff

Eto Buziashvili

Research Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Disinformation Eastern Europe
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