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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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NATO Warns of ‘Over One Thousand’ Russian Troops In Ukraine Fighting Defenders

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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NATO Warns of ‘Over One Thousand’ Russian Troops In Ukraine Fighting Defenders

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

NATO Warns of ‘Over One Thousand’ Russian Troops In Ukraine Fighting Defenders

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.

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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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Fri, February 6, 2026 • 11:00 am ET

How Moscow manufactured the myth of Putin’s inevitable victory

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Fri, January 30, 2026 • 9:00 am ET

How Russia’s winter warfare strategy targets Ukrainian civilians

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Fri, January 16, 2026 • 8:00 am ET

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

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Situation in eastern Ukraine on August 28, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 28, 2014

NATO Warns of ‘Over One Thousand’ Russian Troops In Ukraine Fighting Defenders

By Peter Spiegel, Neil Buckley, and Jack Farchy, Financial Times

Russia has “well over 1,000 troops” operating inside Ukraine, Nato warned on Thursday, as Moscow faced an intensifying backlash over growing evidence of its direct military involvement in the former Soviet country’s uprising in the east.

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In the News

Aug 27, 2014

Karatnycky on Russian Activity in Ukraine

By Adrian Karatnycky

Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky joins MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss whether Russia has truly invaded Ukraine: 

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In the News

Aug 26, 2014

Linderman: “The Ukraine Crisis is an Opening for Georgia”

By Laura Linderman

Business Insider quotes Eurasia Center Nonresident Research Fellow Laura Linderman on Vice President Biden’s support for Georgia’s aspirations to become a NATO member:

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In the News

Aug 26, 2014

Herbst on How Long the Crisis in Ukraine Will Last

By John Herbst

Eurasia Center Director John Herbst joins CNBC to discuss why the Ukraine crisis is likely to continue:

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, May 8, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 26, 2014

NATO’s Second-Class Members

By Slawomir Sierakowski, New York Times

There is no need to pretend: Those members who have no NATO bases are simply a gray area of second-class membership. What has become clear is that not all NATO members are equal.

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In the News

Aug 25, 2014

Brzezinski on Ukraine-Russia Talks

By Ian Brzezinski

CNBC quotes Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski on talks between Ukraine and Russia aimed at finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine:

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New Atlanticist

Aug 25, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | August 25

By Irena Chalupa

Russia’s Great Power Ukraine Strategy via National Interest Baltic Fears: NATO Debates Directing Missile Shield Against Russia via der Spiegel The Making of Vladimir Putin via Politico Russia’s Mock Democracy Feeds Off Apathy via Moscow Times Communism’s Victims Deserve a Museum via Daily Beast Tony Blair Gives Kazakhstan’s Autocratic President Tips on How to Defend a Massacre via Telegraph Battle for Ukraine: An Inside View of the Surreal Donetsk […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 25, 2014

Life in Luhansk’s War Zone: Old People Search for Water, Cellphone Signal

By Irena Chalupa

Residents Recount Their Struggle to Survive Daily Shells and Gunfire Building by building, daily artillery explosions are blasting and burning Ukraine’s southeastern-most provincial capital, Luhansk, into a ruin whose remaining residents are those too poor or aged to escape. Roughly half of the city’s pre-war population of about 450,000 has fled—to other locales in Ukraine […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 25, 2014

Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Crusader Quits Government

By Irena Chalupa

‘No Political Will’ for a ‘Large-Scale War’ Against Graft, Tetiana Chornovol Says Ukraine’s most prominent anti-corruption campaigner, Tetiana Chornovol, has quit her post as head of the government’s National Anti-Corruption Committee, writing on the prominent Ukrainian news website, Ukrainska Pravda, that the government is unprepared for “an uncompromising, large-scale war against corruption.”

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UkraineAlert

Aug 25, 2014

Ukraine’s Independence Day: Opposed Observances

By Irena Chalupa

Rebels Parade Prisoners to Declare That Ukraine Is Nazi-Inspired Ukraine’s government marked the country’s twenty-third anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union yesterday with a military parade and a vow by President Petro Poroshenko to sustain Ukraine’s war against Russian-sponsored separatists in the southeast. In Donetsk, the separatists paraded bruised and dirty Ukrainian soldiers, their […]

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Lukas Andriukaitis

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Disinformation Eastern Europe

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Tyson Barker

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center

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Phyllis Berry

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

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Michael Bociurkiw

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Ukraine International Organizations

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Ian Brzezinski

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Europe Center Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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Eto Buziashvili

Research Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Disinformation Eastern Europe
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