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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War in Ukraine

Four years on

Four years since the invasion, Atlantic Council experts are assessing the state of the war and the prospects for peace—and forecasting what the future holds for Ukraine, Russia, NATO, the United States.

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Dispatches Aug 21, 2026

What it feels like under a Russian missile attack, and what the US can do about it

An Atlantic Council fellow shares her first-hand account of being under attack in Kyiv as ballistic missiles struck.

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Dispatches Sep 1, 2026

Where and how Putin could expand his war in Europe beyond Ukraine

By Atlantic Council experts

The CIA director’s recent unannounced visit to Moscow has raised speculation about Russian plans to escalate attacks.
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UkraineAlert Aug 13, 2026

Russia’s escalating bombardment of Ukraine is not ‘retaliation’

By Zahar Hryniv

Russia is attempting to portray the bombardment of Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure as “retaliation” for Ukraine’s own efforts to defend itself against Putin’s invasion. This “retaliation” narrative is dangerously misleading, writes Zahar Hryniv.
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UkraineAlert Sep 3, 2026

Putin cannot defeat NATO but he could divide and discredit the alliance

By Peter Dickinson

If Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to attack NATO, his goal will be to divide and discredit the alliance rather than actually defeating it, writes Peter Dickinson.
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UkraineAlert Aug 27, 2026

Ukrainians are not superheroes with endless powers of resilience

By Lauren Van Metre, Elena Davlikanova

By celebrating Ukrainian resilience as an almost superhuman quality, the international community risks obscuring the much less glamorous reality that Ukrainians are actually ordinary people who have endured extraordinary violence for far too long, write Lauren Van Metre and Elena Davlikanova.
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UkraineAlert Aug 25, 2026

A cultural renaissance is reshaping national identity in wartime Ukraine

By Davis Richardson

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is fueling a defiant cultural outpouring that is redefining and strengthening Ukrainian national identity in ways that challenge centuries of Kremlin imperialism, writes Davis Richardson.
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“Putin’s endgame: The stakes beyond Ukraine,” an Atlantic Council documentary

Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine may be closer to its end than its beginning. How it ends will matter not only for Ukraine, but for the whole of Europe and the wider world. The first-ever documentary from the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, “Putin’s endgame: The stakes beyond Ukraine,” discusses the threat of Russian aggression beyond Ukraine and the dangers it poses to US interests today and in the future.

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Mar 6, 2014

The Crimean War Revisited

By Ioan Mircea Pascu

History tends to repeat itself (especially if its lessons are forgotten). More than 160 years ago, in 1853, war broke out between France, Britain, Turkey and Piedmont on one side and Russia on the other. In military operations that stretched from the Baltic to the Romanian Principalities and the Crimean Peninsula, Russia was defeated and […]

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In the News

Mar 6, 2014

Joyner: Crimea Is Not Armageddon

By James Joyner

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow James Joyner writes for The Hill on the crisis in Crimea:

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Meeting of NATO NAC and EU PSC, March 5, 2014

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Mar 5, 2014

NATO and EU Ambassadors Meet to Discuss Ukraine Crisis

By European Union

The European Union’s Political and Security Committee (PSC) and NATO’s North Atlantic Council (NAC) held a joint informal meeting today to discus s the situation in Ukraine

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Mar 5, 2014

NATO’s Strategic Ace: Vladimir Putin

By Harlan Ullman

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was on the road to irrelevance. The most successful military alliance in history has lacked a real enemy since the Soviet Union disintegrated a quarter of a century ago.  After a dozen years of war in Afghanistan,  NATO’s role is coming to an ignominious end. Because of Afghan President […]

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Mar 5, 2014

Russia’s Mistral Warship Sets Sail for First Time

By AP

A French-built warship designed to strengthen Russia’s ability to deploy troops, tanks and helicopter gunships is getting its first test run Wednesday — just as Western powers are trying to rein in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military threat to Ukraine.

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In the News

Mar 5, 2014

Brattberg: How Should NATO Respond to Russia?

By Erik Brattberg

Erik Brattberg, Brent Scowcroft Center resident fellow, joins Blomberg TV’s Bottom Line to discuss NATO’s options in response to Russia’s occupation of Crimea:

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New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2014

Moldova’s Prime Minister: We Still Must Build Domestic Consensus for Our European Future

By New Atlanticist

As Moldova prepares (along with Georgia) to sign trade and cooperation agreements with the European Union by September, both countries face military and economic pressure from Russia to reverse course and instead join the Russian-led Customs Union that Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to establish among states of the former Soviet Union.  In an interview […]

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Mar 5, 2014

Crisis in Ukraine: What Does This Mean for the Global Economy?

As the crisis in the Crimea continues, the Atlantic Council hosted a members conference call discussion of how the crisis will affect both the Ukrainian and Russian financial systems, featuring Anders Aslund, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and Michael Marrese, head of Central-Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa […]

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Mar 5, 2014

Syria and Ukraine: Cause and Effect?

By Frederic C. Hof

In 1961, a young US president with an active, inquisitive, open, and skeptical mind learned the hard way that the world can be cruel; that behavior regarded in polite society as restrained, rational, and reasonable can be processed by the bullies of the world as weakness to be exploited.

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Mar 5, 2014

What Ukraine Means For Syria

By Edward P. Joseph

As outrageous and unsettling as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is, the fact remains that the real killing continues to take place in another area of Russian interest: Syria. Indeed, more than a quarter of the 136,000 Syrians killed in the war have died over the past five months alone.

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