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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Fast Thinking Aug 18, 2025

Was Trump’s summit with Zelenskyy and European leaders a turning point for Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Our experts share their perspectives on what the White House summit means for efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine and provide security assurances for Kyiv.

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New Atlanticist Aug 15, 2025

Experts react: Trump and Putin just left Alaska without a deal. Here’s what that means for Russia’s war on Ukraine.

By Atlantic Council experts

The US and Russian presidents met in Anchorage for nearly three hours, but the talks did not bring a halt to Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine.
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Inflection Points Aug 17, 2025

Will Europe rise to its strategic moment?

By Frederick Kempe

With the future of European security on the line, the Ukrainian president and several European allies will meet with US President Donald Trump on Monday.
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UkraineAlert Aug 14, 2025

Trump should insist on the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia

By Mercedes Sapuppo

When US President Donald Trump sits down with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, he must demand the return of the thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, writes Mercedes Sapuppo.
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UkraineAlert Aug 7, 2025

Ukraine’s expanding robot army can help address manpower shortages

By David Kirichenko

Robotic systems are in many ways an ideal battlefield solution for Ukraine as the country seeks ways to leverage its proven tech prowess in order to defend itself in a grueling war of attrition against a far larger enemy, writes David Kirichenko.
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UkraineAlert Jul 30, 2025

A Ukraine without Ukrainians: Putin is erasing Europe’s largest nation

By Peter Dickinson

Russia is systematically erasing all traces of Ukrainian national identity throughout occupied Ukraine as Vladimir Putin pursues an extreme form of eliminationist imperialism in the heart of twenty-first century Europe, writes Peter Dickinson.
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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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UkraineAlert

Mar 18, 2015

EU Will Kick the Can Down the Road on Russia Sanctions

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Europeans do not want to undermine Minsk II, says analyst European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on March 19 are unlikely to either ramp up or lift sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, says Edward W. Walker, a professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley. “It’s very likely that […]

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Mar 18, 2015

Sanctions Are Still the Answer

By John E. Herbst

Last week, UkraineAlert linked to an interesting piece by Clifford Gaddy criticizing the West’s sanctions on Russia for its aggression in Ukraine. His point is this: Putin believes that Russia is “under assault” by the West and cannot allow Ukraine “to be brought fully into the sphere of influence of its enemy.” Therefore, the West […]

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In the News

Mar 18, 2015

Herbst on Russia’s New Narrative for Crimea’s Annexation

By John Herbst

Voice of America quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Director John Herbst on the one year anniversary of Crimea’s annexation and Russia’s new narrative on the events surrounding the annexation:

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New Atlanticist

Mar 17, 2015

Why Has the West Forgotten About Crimea?

By Alina Polyakova

One year after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in a brazen act that violated international treaties and rewrote Europe’s borders for the first time since World War II, Western governments and the media have largely forgotten the peninsula’s plight. In Russia, however, that land grab is far from forgotten. Crimea annexation day will be celebrated […]

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Mar 17, 2015

NATO’s Article 5 and Russian Hybrid Warfare

By Edgar Buckley and Ioan Pascu

We warned last year (The Way to Avoid Wars: Article 5 and Strategic Reassurance Revisited) that any move by Russian forces into Eastern Ukraine would be highly destabilizing and have unpredictable results

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Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, and Francois Hollande, Feb. 11, 2015

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Mar 17, 2015

Over One Hundred Czech and Slovak Intellectuals Call for US and Europe to Stop Appeasing Russia

By Support-Ukraine.Org

There is War in Europe: Let’s not Repeat the Munich Betrayal of 1938.

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In the News

Mar 17, 2015

Polyakova: One Year After the Annexation, a Darkness Falls Over Crimea

By Alina Polyakova

Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Associate Director Alina Polyakova cowrites for the Wall Street Journal on the one year anniversary of the annexation of Crimea:

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Mar 16, 2015

Russia Launches Massive Arctic Military Drills

By AP and Reuters

From AP:  The Russian military on Monday launched sweeping military maneuvers in the Arctic and other areas, a show of force ordered by President Vladimir Putin amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dec. 18, 2014

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Mar 16, 2015

Putin Willing to Put Russian Nuclear Forces on Alert in Support of Attack on Ukraine

By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally directed his nation’s capture of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, he said in a documentary aired Sunday, in which he offered details of his deep involvement in last year’s quick and effective takeover.

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In the News

Mar 16, 2015

Herbst: Kyiv, Not Moscow, Should Be the Choice for Marking V-E Day

By John Herbst

Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Director John Herbst cowrites for the LA Times on why Kyiv, and not Moscow, should host this year’s V-E Day commemoration:

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