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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Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko before Congress, Sept. 18, 2014

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Oct 20, 2014

Give Ukraine the Weapons It Needs for Self-Defense

By Carl Levin and James Inhofe, Washington Post

We believe now is the time to add defensive military aid, including weapons, to our support of Ukraine.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 20, 2014

To Bolster Baltic States Against Russia’s Challenge, Here Is an Easy Victory

By Henrik Breitenbauch

An Impressive Nordic Defense Initiative Should Invite the Three Baltic Nations to Join As Russia’s attacks on Ukraine revive concerns about the security of its northwestern neighbors as well, last month’s NATO summit conference took two noteworthy steps, among others, to address the Russian danger. For one, the allies authorized a new quick-response force to […]

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Oct 20, 2014

Ukraine Prepares to Elect Its Most Pro-European Parliament in History

By New Atlanticist

Poroshenko’s Party Leads; Yatsenyuk Improves Chance of Remaining Prime Minister On Sunday, Ukrainians will elect their first parliament since the Maidan revolution and the Russian invasions of Crimea and Donbas. Kyiv-based political analyst Brian Mefford, now a nonresident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council, analyzes Ukrainian politics and elections on his website’s blog. Mefford’s analysis […]

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Photo of suspected "foreign underwater activity" near Stockholm

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Oct 20, 2014

Sweden’s Mysterious Submarine Hunt and Its Significance for Nordic-Baltic Security

By Magnus Nordenman

Over the weekend, Sweden launched an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operation for the first time since the Cold War.

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In the News

Oct 20, 2014

Brattberg: The Hunt for Black October

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg cowrites for Foreign Policy on the Russian submarine patroling off the coast of Stockholm:

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New Atlanticist

Oct 17, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | October 17

By Jim Rupert

Russia and Ukraine reach tentative gas deal in tough Milan talks via Reuters Ukraine’s Failure to Address Corruption is Radicalizing its People via Associated Press Here’s Why Maidan’s Reformers Are Quitting Their Government Posts via Kyiv Post Poroshenko Government Fires Senior Officials for Corruption as Voters Fume via Christian Science Monitor Ukraine Will Need $2 Billion-Plus to Rebuild Donbas, Finance Minister Says via Moscow Times […]

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Oct 17, 2014

Yanukovych Birthday Video Reflects What Is Angering Ukrainians Now

By James Rupert

Kyiv Says It Fires 39 Officials as Voters Show Frustration Over Continued Corruption Eight months after Ukrainians forced the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, they will elect a parliament amid rising public anger over the persistence of government corruption under the still-new regime of President Petro Poroshenko. Public discussion about how many new leaders are […]

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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the Wales Summit, Sept. 4, 2014

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Oct 17, 2014

Poll: Support for NATO Membership Grows In Ukraine

By AFP

The number of Ukrainians in favor of joining the NATO alliance has risen sharply during Kiev’s drawn-out conflict with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, a poll showed Thursday.

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Oct 16, 2014

Russia’s Nuclear Missile Forces Create Cybersecurity Units: Defense Ministry

By RIA Novosti and Xinhua

From RIA Novosti:  Sopka teams, tasked to detect and prevent cyberattacks, have been created within the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), the ministry’s Strategic Missile Forces spokesman Col. Igor Yegorov told journalists Thursday.

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Oct 16, 2014

Putin’s Balkan Gambit

By Damon Wilson

Buoyed by Successes in Europe’s East, Russia’s Leader Turns His Gaze to Serbia and Its Neighbors Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine aims to deny that nation a European future, partly by closing the door permanently to membership in NATO or the European Union. Putin’s aims, however, are not limited to extending a Russian […]

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