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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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Transcript: Ukraine in Crisis Conference Call

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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Transcript: Ukraine in Crisis Conference Call

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

Transcript: Ukraine in Crisis Conference Call

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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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

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
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Mar 2, 2014

Transcript: Ukraine in Crisis Conference Call

On Sunday, March 2, the Atlantic Council convened a conference call on the crisis in Ukraine for journalists and Council members.

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2014

Nicholas Burns: Five Steps Obama Should Take Now Against Russia

By New Atlanticist

President Obama can quickly take five concrete steps to blunt Russia’s military seizure of control in the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, former Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said in an Atlantic Council conference call today with journalists and Council members. “President Obama faces the most difficult international crisis of his presidency,” Burns said, and the […]

NATO
Russia

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2014

Putin’s Strategy

By Damon Wilson

President Putin is striking back and playing for keeps in Ukraine. After losing his lever of control over Ukraine when the pliant and dependent former President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia, Putin is seeking to regain his leverage by dismembering Ukraine.

Russia
Ukraine

In the News

Mar 2, 2014

Wilson: Nuland’s Ukraine Charge

By Damon Wilson

Reuters quotes Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson on Victoria Nuland’s efforts to change US policy toward Europe’s East and Russia:

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2014

Putin’s Risk of Blowback From Ukraine

By Ian Brzezinski

US Should Stress to Russia the Costs it Will Pay at Home Russia’s invasion of Crimea, and the Russian parliament’s authorization for President Vladimir Putin’s to use military force throughout Ukraine, reflects Putin’s longstanding desire to reacquire territory lost through the collapse of the Soviet Union. This incursion violates a treaty Russia signed in 1994 […]

Eastern Europe
Russia

In the News

Mar 2, 2014

Brattberg: Baltic States Worried by Crimea

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Erik Brattberg is quoted in the Atlantic on the Baltic states’ fears raised by Russia’s occupation of Crimea:

Ukraine

In the News

Mar 2, 2014

Wilson: Putin “Testing the Waters”

By Damon Wilson

The Chicago Sun-Times quotes Atlantic Council executive VP Damon Wilson on how the White House can stem Russia’s interference in Ukraine:

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Ukraine
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New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2014

What Does Putin Want in Ukraine?

By Rajan Menon

The first thing to be said about the question I’ve posed in the title is that no one truly knows — and you shouldn’t believe anyone who says they do. Even Vladimir Putin is unlikely to have figured out all his moves, or decided what would constitute victory for him in Ukraine, at an acceptable […]

Russia
Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Mar 1, 2014

Ukraine Must Learn from Errors of the Orange Revolution

By Damon Wilson

It is not often that second chances come around in history. But the dramatic events in Kiev have given Ukrainians a second chance to turn their backs decisively on the country’s post-Soviet malaise and instead choose a democratic European future. Though tensions remain high, the Ukrainian parliament’s decision to remove Viktor Yanukovych as president hopefully […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Mar 1, 2014

Brzezinski: US Must Specify Sanctions on Russia Over Crimea

By New Atlanticist

US Debates ‘Business as Usual’ With Russia, Says Council’s Damon Wilson As President Obama warned Russia that “there will be costs” if it pursues an invasion of the Ukrainian region of Crimea, policymakers in Washington are debating whether to sustain or suspend “business as usual” with the Russian government, the Atlantic Council’s Damon Wilson said. […]

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Ukraine
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Katerina Sedova

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Myroslava Gongadze

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Democratic Transitions Eastern Europe

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Phyllis Berry

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Europe & Eurasia France

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Volodymyr Havrylov

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

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Valeriya Ionan

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center Europe Center

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Clara Kaluderovic

Nonresident Fellow

Eurasia Center

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