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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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Russian Court Orders Ukrainian Pilot-Soldier to Undergo Psychiatric Evaluation

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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Russian Court Orders Ukrainian Pilot-Soldier to Undergo Psychiatric Evaluation

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

Russian Court Orders Ukrainian Pilot-Soldier to Undergo Psychiatric Evaluation

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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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

Sep 8, 2014

Russian Court Orders Ukrainian Pilot-Soldier to Undergo Psychiatric Evaluation

Nadiya Savchenko Will Refuse to Submit to ‘Illegal’ Exam, Her Lawyer Says A Russian court has sent Ukrainian soldier and pilot Nadiya Savchenko for a “forensic psychiatric evaluation” at the Moscow institute where Soviet authorities for years performed abusive treatments on political dissidents. Savchenko says she will refuse to submit to the examination, which she […]

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UkraineAlert

Sep 8, 2014

Ukraine, Facing Russia on Its Own, Takes the Risk of Truce and Compromise With Moscow

By James Rupert

A Cease-Fire, if It Holds, Could Let the Kremlin Strengthen Its Grip on the Donbas Region When Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko attended the NATO Summit on Friday, it was clear that the Alliance had chosen not to offer his country the weapons it needs to fight the Russian troops and paramilitaries who have invaded his […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Sep 7, 2014

Karatnycky on Tensions Amid Ukraine-Russia Ceasefire

By Adrian Karatnycky

The New York Times quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on the ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine:

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Sep 6, 2014

Slavin on Ukraine, ISIS, Israel

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin joins Voice of America’s Issues in the News to discuss Ukraine, Ebola, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, and Israel:

Israel Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Sep 4, 2014

In Russia, Speaking Power to Truth

By Irena Chalupa

Thugs Beat the Official Who Revealed Kremlin’s Secret Burial of Soldiers Killed in Ukraine War The story Lev Shlosberg told Russians last week is potential political dynamite for President Vladimir Putin: Shlosberg, a provincial legislator from Pskov, visited the funeral for two local men, paratroopers of the 76th Airborne Division, who had been killed in […]

Russia Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Sep 4, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: ‘This Is Vladimir Putin’s War’

By Irena Chalupa

Russia’s Former Deputy Prime Minister Explains to Ukrainians Why His Government Has Invaded Their Country Again With Russia again having escalated its war on Ukraine last month (sending in paratroopers from its 76th and 98th Airborne Divisions, plus armor and artillery), few are asking what is really driving the Kremlin’s military campaign in Ukraine’s southeast. […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Sep 4, 2014

Menon: The War Over the “Boisto” Ukraine Peace Proposal

By Rajan Menon

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Rajan Menon writes for the National Interest on a meeting of American and Russian academics and former officials on Boisto Island, Finland: 

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Sep 4, 2014

Musselman: Speaking Putin’s Language

By Chris Musselman

Brent Scowcroft Center US Navy Senior Fellow Chris Musselman writes for the National Interest on why the NATO Alliance should adopt a policy of “strategic ambiguity” when trying to curb Russian aggression in Ukraine:

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In the News

Sep 4, 2014

Mirtchev: Islamic State Threat is “Here to Stay”

By Alexander Mirtchev

Alexander Mirtchev, a member of the Atlantic Council’s board of directors, joins Bloomberg to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: 

Ukraine

In the News

Sep 4, 2014

Herbst: “Ukrainian Forces are Outgunned by Russia”

By John Herbst

Bloomberg Businessweek quotes Eurasia Center Director John Herbst on what Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hopes to achieve in Ukraine:

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Experts

Fellow

Dominika Kunertova

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Artificial Intelligence Central Europe

Staff

Theresa Luetkefend

Associate Director

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Policy German

Staff

Shelby Magid

Deputy Director

Eurasia Center

Ukraine Human Rights

Fellow

Brian Mefford

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Ukraine Elections

Millennium fellow

Iuliia Mendel

Former Press-Secretary to the President of Ukraine

Millennium Leadership Program

Disinformation Eastern Europe

Fellow

Dylan Myles-Primakoff

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Russia Human Rights
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