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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New Atlanticist

Apr 13, 2010

Ukraine’s Energy Reform Opportunity

By Alexandros Petersen

The 2010 Ukrainian elections have been consigned to history books.  The election season and the winter passed without a major Ukrainian natural gas crisis, and a major gas cutoff, such as occurred in 2009, was avoided

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Apr 13, 2010

Ukraine Vows to Get Rid of its Enriched Uranium

By the Financial Times

From the Financial Times: Ukraine pledged yesterday to get rid of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to make several nuclear weapons, within two years – a good omen for President Barack Obama as he opened a nuclear security summit in Washington. The agreement between Mr Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, his Ukrainian counterpart, will […]

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Apr 8, 2010

Yanukovich Kills Ukraine’s Bid to Join NATO

By the Christian Science Monitor

From the Christian Science Monitor:  Ukraine’s once deeply controversial bid to join NATO appears to have died a little-noticed bureaucratic death this week, as incoming President Viktor Yanukovich moved to abolish a commission that had been overseeing the country’s preparations for eventual entry into the Western military alliance. Monday’s presidential decree scrapping the commission came […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 5, 2010

Ukraine’s Democracy in Danger

By Alexander Motyl

As Ukraine’s recently elected President Viktor Yanukovych prepares to visit Washington in April, he will aim to project an image of stability, confidence, and control. In reality, Mr. Yanukovych has committed a series of mistakes that could doom his presidency, scare off foreign investors, and thwart the country’s modernization.

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Apr 3, 2010

Ukrainian President Liquidates Linkages with NATO

By the Ukranian News Agency

From the Ukranian News Agency:  President Viktor Yanukovych has liquidated the Interdepartmental Commission for Questions of Preparing Ukraine for Joining NATO. Ukrainian News learned this from presidential decree No.496/2010 dated 2 April 2010. President Yanukovych by his presidential decree No.495/2010 dated April 2 also liquidated the National Center for Questions of EuroAtlantic Integration. Viktor Yanukovych […]

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New Atlanticist

Mar 25, 2010

Ukraine’s ‘Prorizna Street Rebellion’ Shows Democracy Internalized

By Alexander Motyl

Ukrainians are keeping a wary eye on the new government of Viktor Yanukovych following his victory in the two-round presidential election of January-February 2010. Some of them are also setting him an example of what collective action in the public interest can mean – and in central Kyiv, just one block away from the site […]

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New Atlanticist

Mar 22, 2010

Ukraine: A Country of People Without Nationality

By Larysa Masenko

Foreign observers have a hard time understanding how the Ukrainian community managed to transfer power to the man whose presidential ambitions five years ago gave rise to a powerful civic movement. Instead, for many of us, above all those who stood in the Maidan back in 2004, the choice the country has made is not […]

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NATOSource

Mar 18, 2010

Pro-Western Head of Ukraine’s Naval Forces Sacked

By  rt.com

From rt.com:  Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has dismissed the country’s Head of Naval forces Igor Tenukh, who allegedly initiated the information war against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. The decision was published on the president’s official website. During the 2008 war launched by Georgia in South Ossetia, Admiral Igor Tenukh ordered Ukrainian ships to block […]

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New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2010

Ukraine’s Success Story

By Edward Lucas

The British journalist Edward Lucas speaks on the need for Ukraine to choose between the Russian dictatorships of the law and the European rule of law.

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Mar 15, 2010

Ukraine and Russia to Resume Joint Naval Exercises

By ITAR-TASS

From ITAR-TASS:  Exercises of the Ukrainian Navy and the Russian Black Sea Fleet will be resumed after a seven-year interval. As the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Friday, a conference on preparations of the joint command and staff computer exercise “Fairway of Peace-2010” scheduled for June 2010 was held in Sevastopol […]

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