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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WATCH

“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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Aug 23, 2010

Ukraine Under Yanukovych: An Analytical Debate

On August 18, New Atlanticist–the Atlantic Council’s policy and analysis blog–published a critique of Ukraine’s leadership and progress toward democracy since 2004. Entitled  “Orange Peels: Ukraine after Revolution,” the essay was written by Council Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2010

Ukraine Boosts State Control

By Alexandra Hrycak

I see that Adrian Karatnycky, author of "Orange Peels," asks us to take a close look at the pattern of behavior exhibited by the Yanukovych administration over the past half year. Upon doing so, he says in reply to recent critical discussions of his piece, we will see that Ukrainians are "tired of protesting" (but […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2010

Ukraine’s Leadership: Follow-up

By Alexander Motyl

This discussion of Yanukovych is beginning to resemble the kind of conversations I used to have with Soviets back in the days of the Cold War. You say A, they say –A. You say B, they say –B. After a while, you begin to realize that you and they inhabit different worlds, have different values, […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2010

Orange Peels: Follow-up

By Adrian Karatnycky

In his rejoinder to my recent article, “Orange Peels: Ukraine After Revolution,” my good friend Alexander Motyl claims he and other critics of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych gave him the benefit of the doubt. For the record, Motyl’s benefit of the doubt did not last long.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 20, 2010

Ukraine’s Leadership: Why Yanukovych Does Not Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt

By Alexander Motyl

Adrian Karatnycky’s article, “Orange Peels: Ukraine after Revolution,” was written about six months too late. Had it appeared back in February 2010, Karatnycky’s analysis—and his suggestion that Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych “deserves the benefit of our doubt”—would have been right on target.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 18, 2010

Orange Peels: Ukraine after Revolution

By Adrian Karatnycky

Five years ago, post-Soviet Ukraine, a critically placed country of some 46 million people, seemed to be on the fast track toward modernity. The Orange Revolution, the spontaneous mass protests of fraud in Ukraine’s November 2004 presidential election, presaged a mature civil society and free media. The protests led to the election of Viktor Yushchenko, […]

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Jul 27, 2010

Ukraine’s new NATO mission head upbeat on ties with alliance

By Interfax-Ukraine

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Jul 21, 2010

Ukraine takes up duty in NATO Response Force

By Interfax-Ukraine

From Interfax-Ukraine:  Ukraine has for the first time taken up duty in the NATO Response Force (NRF) of the 15th rotation. NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander for Europe Admiral James Stavridis reported this in a note of thanks addressed to the Ukrainian side, Interfax-Ukraine learned in the Mission of Ukraine to NATO in Brussels on Tuesday. […]

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Jul 12, 2010

Ukraine and NATO begin Sea Breeze military exercise

By the Kyiv Post

From the Kyiv Post:  The U.S. and Ukrainian Sea Breeze 2010 exercises were started at the Odesa House of Officers on Monday. "I am glad to announce the beginning of the Ukraine-U.S. Sea Breeze exercises. Thirteen member countries began the exercises, which will help Ukraine practice interaction with other fleets.

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Jul 7, 2010

Ukraine, NATO to hold Sea Breeze military drills in July

By RIA Novosti

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