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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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British Defense Committee Finds NATO ‘Poorly Prepared’ to Defend Members From Russian Threat

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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British Defense Committee Finds NATO ‘Poorly Prepared’ to Defend Members From Russian Threat

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

British Defense Committee Finds NATO ‘Poorly Prepared’ to Defend Members From Russian Threat

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
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

Online Event
Thu, December 18, 2025 • 12:00 pm ET

How can Ukraine best secure the homefront?

Civil Society
Conflict
Defense Policy
Europe & Eurasia

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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Soldier with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Feb. 25, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 31, 2014

British Defense Committee Finds NATO ‘Poorly Prepared’ to Defend Members From Russian Threat

By House of Commons Defense Committee

Our conclusion is that NATO is currently not well-prepared for a Russian threat against a NATO Member State.

NATO
Russia

Event Recap

Jul 31, 2014

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister: Kremlin Should ‘Take Back … Mercenaries’ Driving the Ukraine War

By James Rupert

Pavlo Klimkin, in Washington Visit, Speaks at Atlantic Council Forum Ukraine’s government is ready to negotiate new political powers for local governments in southeastern Ukraine, but such a settlement will require first that Russia remove both the leaders and the mercenary fighters of the separatist militias that it has created there, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister […]

Russia
Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Jul 31, 2014

Europe’s New Sanctions: a ‘Game Changer’ in Pressing Kremlin on Ukraine, Burwell Says

By James Rupert

EU’s Economic Ties to Russia Slow its Pace, But New Steps Show Unity With US This week’s European sanctions on Russia are “a game-changer” in applying the European Union’s first restrictions on a relatively broad sector of trade, says the Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell. While the sanctions are shaped to avoid directly damaging key European […]

Russia
Ukraine

In the News

Jul 30, 2014

Hansen: Europe’s Step in the Right Direction

By Ian Hansen

Atlantic Council Program Assistant Ian Hansen writes for US News and World Report on why the EU action against Russia must go beyond sanctions:

European Union
International Organizations

Defense Industrialist

Jul 30, 2014

Russian Imports, Ukrainian Exports

By James Hasik

Kiev will have an easier time severing military-industrial ties than Moscow will. Harsher sanctions, meant specifically to limit technologically advanced imports to the Russian armaments industry, are on the way from the countries of Europe and North America. In response, President Putin earlier this week convened a meeting of officials from government and industry on “import replacement.” […]

Russia
Ukraine
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Barack Obama, July 8, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 30, 2014

Russia and the West’s Dangerous Clash: Time for NATO & EU Expansion East?

By Ian Bond, Denis Corboy, William Courtney, and Kenneth Yalowitz, National Interest

[T]he North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), while modestly buttressing defenses in member states in Central Europe and the Baltics, has left Ukraine out in the cold.

NATO
NATO Partnerships

In the News

Jul 29, 2014

Brzezinski Testifies Before House Committee on Downed MH17

By Ian Brzezinski

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski testifies before the House Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats and the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade on the subject of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the escalating crisis in Ukraine:

Russia
Ukraine

Webcasts

Jul 29, 2014

Wartime Diplomacy

Please join the Atlantic Council on July 29, 2014 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. as we discuss the current crisis with Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Pavlo Klimkin who will be in Washington for emergency consultations with Secretary Kerry and Capitol Hill.

Russia
Ukraine
Challenger tank of the King's Royal Hussars, July 16, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 28, 2014

Europe Needs a Cold War Lesson in Deterrence

By Philip Stephens, Financial Times

Europeans have been slow to recognise the world as it is rather than as they imagined.

Europe & Eurasia
NATO
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, May 20, 2012

NATOSource

Jul 28, 2014

Canada is First NATO Member to Impose Sectoral Sanctions on Russia

By Stephen Harper, Globe and Mail

Russia’s aggressive militarism and expansionism are a threat to more than just Ukraine; they are a threat to Europe, to the rule of law and to the values that bind Western nations. Canada will not stand idly by in the face of this threat.

NATO
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Experts

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Elizabeth Jones

Engagement Leader, Voluntas Ukraine

Millennium Leadership Program

Europe & Eurasia Resilience & Society

Fellow

Katerina Sedova

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Artificial Intelligence Eastern Europe

Fellow

Myroslava Gongadze

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Democratic Transitions Eastern Europe

Fellow

Phyllis Berry

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Europe & Eurasia France

Fellow

Volodymyr Havrylov

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Defense Policy English

Fellow

Valeriya Ionan

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center Europe Center

Digital Policy English
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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