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 | May 15

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 | May 15

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 | May 15

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


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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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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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Thu, March 5, 2026 • 11:00 am ET

How should the United States approach the China-Russia partnership?

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Europe & Eurasia
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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
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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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New Atlanticist

May 15, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | May 15

By Irena Chalupa

Nationalism Is Exactly What Ukraine Needs from The New Republic The Unraveling of Ukraine from Politico Inside East Ukraine’s Make-Believe Republics from The Daily Beast Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in Russia—and the Kremlin’s TV Network Is in on It from The New Republic No, Putin didn’t plot to invade Ukraine. But now he might have […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

May 15, 2014

Bad Timing for Putin: He Would Have Preferred to Wait a Year on Ukraine

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Moscow May Have a Plan to Subvert Kyiv, But it Wasn’t for Launch in 2014 Whether the Kremlin is improvising in its confrontation with Ukraine or following a well-established plan, it is clear that the Putin administration had hoped to postpone the showdown for at least several years. The Russian government anticipated that former Ukrainian […]

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President Vladimir Putin with Russia's National Amateur Ice Hockey Team, May 10, 2014

NATOSource

May 14, 2014

Why Aren’t Sanctions Stopping Putin?

By Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Daily Beast

The West is threatening another round of sanctions against Russia in an effort to deter meddling in the May 25 presidential elections in Ukraine.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, May 14, 2014

NATOSource

May 14, 2014

US Chief of Defense: NATO Needs to Revisit the Meaning of Deterrence

By Martin Dempsey, Defense One

Dempsey: My personal view is that this is a moment for NATO to decide what it intends to be in the future.

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In the News

May 14, 2014

Ullman: History Should Matter

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for UPI on the importance of looking at events in Ukraine and other places through a historical lens: 

Ukraine

In the News

May 14, 2014

Herbst: United States Has Strong Cards to Play Against Putin

By John Herbst

Eurasia Center Director John Herbst joins Bloomberg’s Taking Stock to discuss President Putin’s calculations regarding Ukraine and what the United States and its allies can do. Watch the full interview here.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

NATOSource

May 13, 2014

Europeans Dither on Defense While Putin Laughs

By John Vinocur, Wall Street Journal

On one hand, there are European countries reasonably bemoaning years of declining American leadership and resolve.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

New Atlanticist

May 12, 2014

The Other Referendum in Eastern Ukraine

By Irena Chalupa

Amid the big news of the secessionist referendum in Donetsk and Luhansk, a second plebiscite, less noticed, asked voters in 14 districts whether they would prefer not to secede from those provinces, to remain part of Ukraine and under the rule of Kyiv.

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

May 12, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | May 12

By Irena Chalupa

Ukraine: Part of America’s “Vital Interests”? from The National Interest The Battle in Ukraine Means Everything Fascism returns to the country it once destroyed from The New Republic  Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself from The Daily Beast The Twitter War: Social Media’s Role in Ukraine Unrest Social media networks […]

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REUTERS/Baz Ratner

UkraineAlert

May 12, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: ‘How I Voted – Four Times – Against the Donetsk People’s Republic’

By Irena Chalupa

Russian-Sponsored Rebels Hold a ‘Referendum’ on Separation from Ukraine, But a Local Journalist Finds It a Farce Donetsk resident Ihnat Svyachyshyn sets off to vote in the May 11 Donetsk separatist referendum. He asks his neighbors, a couple in their mid-twenties to join him but they refuse. While they support a federalization of political power […]

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