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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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Benitez: Put an End to Putin’s Aggression

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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Benitez: Put an End to Putin’s Aggression

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

Benitez: Put an End to Putin’s Aggression

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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Events

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

Online Event
Fri, January 30, 2026 • 9:00 am ET

How Russia’s winter warfare strategy targets Ukrainian civilians

Conflict
Europe & Eurasia
Geopolitics & Energy Security
Human Rights

Online Event
Fri, January 16, 2026 • 8:00 am ET

How might Russia’s war on Ukraine change in 2026?

Europe & Eurasia
Politics & Diplomacy
Russia
Security & Defense

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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Content

In the News

Aug 28, 2014

Benitez: Put an End to Putin’s Aggression

By Jorge Benitez

NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez writes for US News and World Report on why the West should become militarily involved in the crisis in Ukraine:

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UkraineAlert

Aug 28, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Russian Tycoon “Will No Longer Be Silent” on Ukraine War

By Irena Chalupa

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Calls for General Strike in Russia to Protest Invasion The Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chairman of Yukos, once Russia’s biggest oil company, is speaking out against the toll that the Kremlin’s undeclared war on Ukraine is taking on Russians. Khodorkovsky, a Putin foe who spent nearly ten years in prison on politically […]

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UkraineAlert

Aug 28, 2014

Russia Secretively Buries its Soldiers Killed in the Ukraine War

By Irena Chalupa

Russian military officials stood at a cemetery surrounded by forest in far northwestern Russia, early Tuesday morning, and carefully vetted the army officers, soldiers and family members arriving for a funeral to be held in secrecy. Two paratroopers from Russia’s 76th Airborne Division were to be buried. They died last week – no one would […]

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UkraineAlert

Aug 28, 2014

Russian Troops in Ukraine: It’s Really an Invasion After All

By James Rupert

As Media Harden Their Accounts of Russia’s Assault, Will the West Harden Its Response? Russia’s attacks into Ukraine this week (exactly six months after its troops began their invasion of Crimea) are bringing the actual word ”invasion” into media headlines. Atlantic Council analysts and others say the key question now is how hard a response […]

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RAF Typhoon lifts off for Libya, May 25, 2011

NATOSource

Aug 28, 2014

US and Europe have a Feasible Military Option for Defending Ukraine

By Jorge Benitez, U.S. News & World Report

It is becoming harder and harder to ignore Russia’s growing military intervention in Ukraine.

Central Europe France
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and President Barack Obama

NATOSource

Aug 28, 2014

Special Summit Series: Canada and NATO

By Julie Lindhout and Christian Paas-Lang

Ukraine is, of course, the most pressing issue facing NATO as a whole today.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Event Recap

Aug 28, 2014

Coordinating on Ukraine: Strategy Session with USG Interagency

By The Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council on August 26 gathered experts, policymakers, and US government officials as part of its ongoing “Coordinating on Ukraine: Strategy Session with USG Interagency.” The off-the-record event, chaired by Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson, covered topics such as how to deal with Russian aggression in the Ukraine context and more broadly; what […]

Europe & Eurasia Russia

New Atlanticist

Aug 28, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | August 28

By Irena Chalupa

Helping Ukraine is a U.S. Imperative via Wall Street Journal Russian Troops In Ukraine Shape NATO’s Counter to Putin via Foreign Policy Far-Right ‘Russian Jihad’ Fighters Cross into Ukraine via France 24 Meet Vladimir Putin’s Real Challengers (They’re Even Worse Than He Is) via Spectator Russian Moms Denounce Putin’s Not-So-Secret Ukraine Invasion via Daily Beast Report: Russian Troops Were Paid $7,000 to Fight in Eastern […]

Ukraine
Appears to be a Russian military convoy near Krasnodon, Ukraine, August 21, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 28, 2014

NATO Releases Satellite Images of Russian Combat Troops Inside Ukraine

By Allied Command Operations

NATO released new satellite images on Thursday, 28 August 2014, that show Russian combat forces engaged in military operations inside the sovereign territory of Ukraine.

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In the News

Aug 28, 2014

Chalupa on Russian Intervention in Ukraine

By Irene Chalupa

Atlantic Council Writer and Editor Irene Chalupa joins CBC Television to discuss the impact of sanctions against Russia:

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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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Events

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