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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 Election Day: First Thoughts

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 Election Day: First Thoughts

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 Election Day: First Thoughts

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

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
Politics & Diplomacy
Russia
Security & Defense

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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New Atlanticist

Jan 17, 2010

Ukraine Election Day: First Thoughts

By Adrian Karatnycky

The signs are pointing to a relatively clear, free and fair first round in Ukraine’s presidential elections. As of 3 p.m. Kyiv time, turnout was 46 percent, with no dramatic regional anomalies that would suggest ballot stuffing or ballot rigging. Opora, an activist group with a high degree of credibility and independence, is reporting no […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2010

Ukraine’s Anti-Orange Election

By Alexander Motyl

As Ukrainians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, Western observers should interpret the outcome in light of how the U.S. premier political scientist distinguished between good and bad government.

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2010

Ukraine Election Backgrounder

By Adrian Karatnycky

Ukraine votes in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, January 17th. 

Ukraine

NATOSource

Nov 17, 2009

Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine Form Joint Brigade for International Missions

By Reuters

From Reuters: Poland and Lithuania want to forge military cooperation with Ukraine to try to bring the former Soviet republic closer to NATO, Polish officials said. Under the plan, the three countries would form a brigade that could participate in international peacekeeping operations under the auspices of the United Nations, the European Union or NATO. […]

European Union
International Organizations

NATOSource

Aug 24, 2009

Fears of regime change add new dimension to Russia-Ukraine tensions

By Deutsche Welle

From Deutsche Welle: Medvedev is unlikely to lose much sleep over any EU response should the Kremlin – one way or another – install its favored candidate in the Kyiv hot seat. The EU, currently hugely dependent on Russian gas, imposed no serious penalty on Moscow over the war with Georgia and recent signs hint […]

European Union
International Organizations

NATOSource

Aug 22, 2009

NATO and Ukraine strengthen their cooperation

By NATO

From NATO: NATO and Ukraine took their relationship to a higher level by the signing of a “Declaration to Complement the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership between NATO and Ukraine” at NATO Headquarters on 21 August . . . The Declaration gives the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC) a central role to play in the process launched […]

Ukraine

NATOSource

Aug 21, 2009

Poll: about half of Ukrainians favor EU, most dislike NATO

By the Kyiv Post

From the Kyiv Post: According to the polls findings, 46.8% of Ukrainians have a favorable opinion about the EU, with 11.3% of them claiming they have a very favorable opinion about the EU. Twenty-two point six percent of the respondents have an unfavorable view of the EU, 8.9% of them with a very unfavorable view. […]

European Union
International Organizations

NATOSource

Aug 15, 2009

Russian diplomat: Georgia’s, Ukraine’s NATO membership no longer on agenda

By the Kyiv Post

From the Kyiv Post: “Russia and NATO bear common responsibility for security on the Euro-Atlantic area. The fact that the theme of these two countries’ membership of NATO is no longer on the political agenda is above all a victory of common sense,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said in an interview with Interfax. […]

Ukraine

NATOSource

Aug 11, 2009

Moscow Signals Widening Rift With Ukraine

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: The Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, assailed his Ukrainian counterpart on Tuesday, blaming him for anti-Russian policies that he said have brought relations between the two countries to “unprecedented lows.” In a letter to President Viktor A. Yushchenko of Ukraine, Mr. Medvedev announced that Russia would not dispatch its new […]

Ukraine
United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Aug 4, 2009

Biden Was Right: Russia No Longer a Great Power

By David Smith

As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden returned to Washington from his foray to Ukraine and Georgia, the first copies of a Wall Street Journal article that would plunge him into political controversy rolled off the presses.

The Caucasus
Ukraine
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Phyllis Berry

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Europe & Eurasia France

Staff

Katherine Spencer

Program Assistant

Eurasia Center

Central Asia Conflict

Fellow

Danuta Hübner

Distinguished Fellow

Europe Center

Democratic Transitions Economy & Business

Fellow

Dominika Kunertova

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Artificial Intelligence Central Europe

Fellow

Leslie Shedd

Nonresident Fellow

Eurasia Center

Eastern Europe Elections

Fellow

Edward Verona

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Economy & Business
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