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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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Pavel: Europe and US Must Be “Unified and Coordinated” in Russia Strategy

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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Pavel: Europe and US Must Be “Unified and Coordinated” in Russia Strategy

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

Pavel: Europe and US Must Be “Unified and Coordinated” in Russia Strategy

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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Mon, March 30, 2026 • 2:00 pm ET

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

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Fri, March 27, 2026 • 12:00 pm ET

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

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Fri, March 13, 2026 • 10:30 am ET

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

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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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In the News

Apr 20, 2014

Pavel: Europe and US Must Be “Unified and Coordinated” in Russia Strategy

By Barry Pavel

Deutsche Welle interviews VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on whether the United States should provide defense weapons to Ukraine: 

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In the News

Apr 20, 2014

Brattberg: Is There a US Pivot To Europe?

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg writes for the National Interest on what the crisis in Ukraine might mean for NATO and for US interests in Europe: 

NATO Russia

In the News

Apr 19, 2014

Volker on Russia’s Support of Separatists in Ukraine

By Kurt Volker

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Kurt Volker joins CNN’s New Day to discuss how Russia is fomenting political unrest in Ukraine through support of separatist groups:

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In the News

Apr 19, 2014

Nurick on US Policy Towards Russia

By Robert Nurick

The New York Times quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Nurick on what an updated United States foreign policy strategy regarding Russia may look like: 

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Unidentified gunmen at Simferopol Airport, Feb. 28, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 18, 2014

Putin’s Way of War and NATO’s Article Five

By Janine Davidson, Council on Foreign Relations

NATO countries have been reluctant to provide support to Ukraine’s military, who is not a member of the transatlantic alliance and therefore not entitled to a collective defensive response under NATO’s Article Five.

NATO Northern Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 17, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 18, 2014

Stop Blaming NATO for Putin’s Provocations

By James Goldgeier, New Republic

The principal problem with the argument against NATO enlargement is that it never offers an alternative beyond leaving Europe frozen in time in 1989.

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An armed man in Slaviansk, Ukraine April 16, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 18, 2014

NATO Military Commander: Evidence Proves Russian Forces Already in Ukraine

By Philip M. Breedlove, Allied Command Operations

It’s hard to fathom that groups of armed men in masks suddenly sprang forward from the population in eastern Ukraine and systematically began to occupy government facilities. It’s hard to fathom because it’s simply not true.

NATO Russia

In the News

Apr 17, 2014

Karatnycky on Russian Funding of Separatist Groups

By Adrian Karatnycky

Voice of America quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on Ukraine’s announcement that Russian banks are funding separatist groups in eastern Ukraine: 

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REUTERS/Marko Djurica

New Atlanticist

Apr 17, 2014

Amid Chaos, a Humiliating and Dangerous Defeat for Ukraine

By Irena Chalupa

In Russia’s takeover of southeast Ukraine – which President Vladimir Putin is characterizing as a recovery of old Russian provinces lost in the 1920s – this week’s ineffectiveness and weakness of Ukraine’s government and armed forces are visible almost everywhere.

Eastern Europe Russia

New Atlanticist

Apr 17, 2014

Slocombe: Send US Military Aid to Ukraine, But Expect Battlefield Results to Take Time

By Irena Chalupa and James Rupert

The United States should provide military aid to Ukraine but should understand that the strength it lends the government in Kyiv will be more political than military, at least in the short run, says Former Undersecretary of Defense Walter Slocombe. As the Obama administration has limited its assistance to “non-lethal” supplies such as rations and […]

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Debra Cagan

Senior Advisor, Eurasia Center

Eurasia Center

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

Fellow

Michael Carpenter

Distinguished Fellow

Eurasia Center Europe Center

Eastern Europe National Security

Fellow

Hagar Hajjar Chemali

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Economic Statecraft Initiative GeoEconomics Center

Economy & Business Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

Staff

Andrew D’Anieri

Associate Director

Eurasia Center

Ukraine Political Reform

Fellow

Ann Marie Dailey

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Defense Policy Europe & Eurasia

Staff

Peter Dickinson

Editor, UkraineAlert

Eurasia Center

Ukraine Civil Society
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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