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

Aug 14, 2014

New Ukraine Orthodox Leader Signals Continued Church Divide

By Irena Chalupa

Ukrainians’ Traditional Loyalty to Moscow Patriarch is Strained by His Close Tie to Kremlin  The longstanding divide between Ukraine’s two main Orthodox churches will continue with little change following the election yesterday of a new leader, or metropolitan, by the Moscow-aligned faction. Metropolitan Onufriy is a religious conservative loyal to his church’s formal subordination to […]

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Event Recap

Aug 14, 2014

Ukrainians Will Not Compromise With Russia, Nayyem Says

Ukrainian Journalist Urges West: Don’t Press Kyiv to Halt Advance Four months into their battle with Russia over southeast Ukraine, Ukrainians will not allow their government to compromise Ukraine’s sovereignty in the region, and the international community should not press it to do so, prominent Ukrainian journalist Mustafa Nayyem said at the Atlantic Council. Ukraine […]

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Event Recap

Aug 13, 2014

Eyewitness: Battle for Ukraine

By The Atlantic Council

On Tuesday, August 12th, the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center hosted an on-the-record small group discussion with one of Ukraine’s most prominent journalists, Mustafa Nayyem. The event was introduced and moderated by Atlantic Council Writer and Editor Irena Chalupa.

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Aug 13, 2014

Pentagon Increasing Its Arsenal of Weapons in Norway’s Caves

By Dan Lamothe, Washington Post

In the heart of Norway’s countryside, the U.S. military is bolstering its arsenal of weapons with tanks, gun trucks and other armored vehicles along with hundreds of containers of equipment.

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In the News

Aug 13, 2014

Herbst in Ukrainian Daily “Den”

By John Herbst

Eurasia Center Director John Herbst speaks with Ukrainian daily newspaper Den on Obama, Putin, and the “red line” in Ukraine. Read the article here.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Dec. 4, 2013

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Aug 12, 2014

NATO Chief Sees ‘High Probability’ of Russian Military Intervention in Ukraine

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday he saw a “high probability” that Russia could intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine and that NATO detected no sign that Moscow was pulling back thousands of troops from close to the Ukrainian border.

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In the News

Aug 12, 2014

Karatnycky: Putin Gets in the ‘Aid’ Game

By Adrian Karatnycky

Transatlantic Relations Program Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky joins Wall Street Journal Live to discuss Vladimir Putin’s use of humanitarian aid to Ukraine as a cover to escalate fighting and boost his popularity.

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UkraineAlert

Aug 11, 2014

Russian-Backed Rebels Put a Local Man Out Front, But Still Look Divided

By Irena Chalupa

Separatists Show No Unity Under New Donetsk ‘Prime Minister,’ Kremlin Paper Says The Kremlin and its proxy rebellion in southeastern Ukraine seemed to recognize last week that as a supposedly Ukrainian uprising, it should have a titular Ukrainian leader, rather than a Moscow-based Russian ultra-nationalist with ties to the Kremlin. So after three months as […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 11, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | August 11

By Irena Chalupa

Photos and Roses for GRU’s ‘Spetsnaz’ Casualties via Financial Times Russia Has Stumbled in Ukraine via Moscow Times Husband of Kiev Revolution Hero Killed in Battle in Ukraine via Mashable Why Arming Ukraine is a Bad Idea via Washington Post Shocking Russian National Broadcast Invokes Nazism, Terrorism, and the Restoration of the Soviet Union via Euromaidan press Russia Resumes Crimean Tatar Deportation, One at a […]

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In the News

Aug 8, 2014

Herbst on Sanctions Against Russia

By John Herbst

Eurasia Center Director John Herbst joins the John Batchelor Show to discuss new European Union sanctions against Russia:  Listen to the interview here.

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