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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“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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In the News

Feb 17, 2015

Karantnycky on the Ukrainian Ceasefire

By Adrian Karatnycky

Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky joins CBC News to discuss the strategic importance of Debaltseve and whether the Ukrainian casefire has been violated:

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Feb 17, 2015

Karatnycky: “We’re Dealing with a Battle for the Heart and Soul of Russia”

By Adrian Karatnycky

The AP quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on the fighting in Debaltseve and why the fight in Ukraine demonstrates a change in Russian values:

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and British Prime Minister David Cameron, Sept. 4, 2014

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Feb 17, 2015

David Cameron Will Encourage Britain’s Enemies If He Cuts Defense Spending, Warn Former NATO Chiefs

By Ben Riley-Smith, Telegraph

David Cameron will embolden Vladimir Putin and Islamic terrorists if he reneges on a commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence, two former Nato heads have warned.

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In the News

Feb 15, 2015

Herbst on the Ceasefire in Ukraine

By John Herbst

Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Director John Herbst joins C-SPAN to discuss whether the current ceasefire in Ukraine will hold:

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The leaders of Belarus, Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine, Feb. 11, 2015

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Feb 14, 2015

Stephen Walt Makes the Case for Appeasing Russia

By Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

Those who favor arming Ukraine are also applying “deterrence model” remedies to what is almost certainly a “spiral model” situation.

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In the News

Feb 13, 2015

Herbst on Russian Popular Opinion

By John Herbst

The Star Tribune quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Director John Herbst on Russian popular opinion of Putin and the conflict in Ukraine:

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In the News

Feb 13, 2015

Dobriansky: Russia Should Be Prosecuted for its Crimes Against Humanity

Paula J. Dobriansky, who served as Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs from 2001 to 2009 and is an Atlantic Council Board member, writes in The Washington Post that the International Criminal Court must investigate Russia’s violations in Ukraine: “Russia’s grave violations of international humanitarian norms, especially the law of armed conflict, should […]

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In the News

Feb 13, 2015

Brzezinski on the Ceasefire Agreement for Ukraine

By Ian Brzezinski

Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the ceasefire agreement for Ukraine, why he’s pessimistic that it will end the violence, and what the West needs to do to enforce the terms:

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Feb 13, 2015

Herbst: “It’s Certainly not a Very Good Agreement for Ukraine”

By John Herbst

Deutsche Welle quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Director John Herbst on the agreement in Minsk and what it means for Ukraine:

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UkraineAlert

Feb 13, 2015

Ukraine’s Other War: Parliament Advances Anti-Corruption Fight

By New Atlanticist

Lawmakers Vote to End Their Immunity from Prosecution Members of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, overwhelmingly passed a bill to end their own legal immunity from prosecution, one of the main laws that for years helped Ukraine to the top of Europe’s corruption charts. Article 80 of Ukraine’s constitution protects all Rada members from prosecution […]

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