Ukraine

Ukraine

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 News Roundup | June 9

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 News Roundup | June 9

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 News Roundup | June 9

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

Public Event
Mon, March 30, 2026 • 2:00 pm ET

Report launch: How the West lost the post-Cold War era

Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Europe & Eurasia
Politics & Diplomacy

Public Event
Fri, March 27, 2026 • 12:00 pm ET

How Ukraine’s drones and Russia’s reconnaissance fit into the Iran war

Conflict
Defense Industry
Defense Policy
Defense Technologies

Public Event
Fri, March 13, 2026 • 10:30 am ET

Ukraine’s human capital and the foundations of recovery and long-term security

Economy & Business
Europe & Eurasia
Resilience & Society
Russia

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Content

New Atlanticist

Jun 9, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | June 9

By Irena Chalupa

Don’t Forget Crimea from The New York Times Ukraine’s Search For An Honest Thief from Politico Magazine Vladimir Putin’s European Adventures from The Economist Ukrainian Energy Firm Hires Biden Son As Lawyer from San Jose Mercury News Mr. Perfect from Warsaw: The Rise of Poland’s Foreign Minister from Spiegel Russia’s Eurasian Union: Part of a Master Plan from The National Interest […]

Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will need to buid a partnership with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to advance the reforms he has promised to implement. (Photo: Kathrin Mobius/CC License)

New Atlanticist

Jun 9, 2014

Ukraine’s New President Must Begin Reforms Immediately

By Sabine Freizer

Poroshenko Must Partner With Prime Minister Yatsenyuk to Make Progress As Petro Poroshenko begins his first week as Ukraine’s president, his country needs him to begin difficult reforms immediately, even as his government struggles with the Russian-backed uprising in eastern Ukraine. The immediacy is enforced by a shriveling economy that is likely to lose between […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Jun 8, 2014

Herbst: Don’t Forget Crimea

By John Herbst

Eurasia Center Director John Herbst cowrites for the New York Times on why the West must not forget about the Russian annexation of Crimea: 

Russia Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomija, Jan. 23, 2012

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2014

Finland Will Require Referendum to Decide NATO Membership

By Defense News and Yle

From Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News:  Finland’s electorate will ultimately decide whether Finland will join NATO.

NATO NATO Partnerships

In the News

Jun 6, 2014

Kordosova: European Reassurance Initiative is “Much Needed”

By Simona Kordosova

World Politics Review quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Associate Director Simona Kordosova on the US-Polish relationship and the new European Reassurance Initiative that President Obama announced during his recent trip to Warsaw:

Poland Ukraine
Screenshots from the Ekho Moskvy website show Maria Turchenkova's photo of the "Cargo 200" truck carrying bodies of Russian fighters across the border from Ukraine to Russia.

New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Russia’s Secret Fighters in Ukraine

By James Rupert

A Reporter Escorts 31 Bodies Home to Russia, Their Names Kept Hidden in Death as in Warfare President Vladimir Putin, and hence Russia’s state-run mass media, say the war in eastern Ukraine is a “people’s struggle” by ethnic Russians against attacks by ethnic Ukrainian fascists and Nazis backed by the United States. In the Kremlin’s […]

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New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2014

In the Fight With Russia, Can Volunteer Battalions Save Ukraine?

By Irena Chalupa

Only his family and closest friends know his real name and his face has never been shown in public. Television viewers have seen only his eyes and heard his calm voice, a voice that speaks many uncomfortable truths. Semen Semenchenko, is the nom de guerre of an ethnic Russian man from Donetsk, a father of […]

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EUFOR soldier

NATOSource

Jun 5, 2014

Europe’s Dangerous Neighborhood

By Javier Solana, Project Syndicate

Europe’s eastern neighborhood is marked by the crisis in Ukraine.

Europe & Eurasia European Union
Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, April 17, 2014

NATOSource

Jun 5, 2014

The West Shows No Willingness to Defend Freedom Against Russia

By Editorial Board, Washington Post

[W]hat of the defense of freedom, about which Mr. Obama spoke at Warsaw’s Castle Square? The president and his European partners are going only so far as they perceive they can without unduly upsetting Mr. Putin.

Poland Russia

New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | June 5

By Irena Chalupa

The West shows no willingness to defend freedom against Russia from The Washington Post Anyone who says Russia is losing in Ukraine doesn’t understand how this game is played from Foreign Policy ‘A European War’: The Fight for Ukraine’s East Gets Bloodier from Der Spiegel Witness to a Ukraine Rebel Breakthrough from The Daily Beast Ukraine’s […]

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Experts

Millennium fellow

Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska

Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Millennium Leadership Program

Eastern Europe Energy & Environment

Fellow

Mark Klamberg

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

English European Union

Fellow

Dominika Kunertova

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Artificial Intelligence Central Europe

Fellow

Keri M. Lowry

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Africa Conflict

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
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Events

Online Event Mon, May 4, 2026 • 10:00 am ET

How are Ukraine’s new partnerships and drone innovations changing the war?
Defense Technologies Drones Europe & Eurasia Politics & Diplomacy