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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New Atlanticist

Jul 24, 2014

Ukraine Faces New Risk of Instability as it Seeks a Cleaner Parliament

By Irena Chalupa and James Rupert

With Early Elections, Will Political Infighting Revive? Yesterday’s announced resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is a potential step toward strengthening Ukraine’s government – but also a political risk that deepens the uncertainties facing Ukraine at least for the coming months. The potential to strengthen the government is this: Ukraine needs a new parliament, […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 24, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | July 24

By Irena Chalupa

Russia’s Megarich Are Losing Billions in Putin’s War via Business Week How MH17 Unfolded in Moscow via London Review of Books blog Exclusive: Ukraine Asked U.S. for Tech to Counter Russia’s Jet-Killers via Daily Beast The Most Dangerous Man in Ukraine Is an Obsessive War Reenactor Playing Now with Real Weapons via New Republic MH17: The Clues Which May Lead to Missile Launch […]

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In the News

Jul 24, 2014

Brzezinski on EU Sanctions Against Russia

By Ian Brzezinski

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss whether the European Union is likely to impose additional sanctions against Russia:

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New Atlanticist

Jul 24, 2014

Chief of Russian-Backed Militia: Yes, Rebels Actually Had That Missile

By James Rupert

Khodakovsky Blames Ukraine for Provoking What He Says Indeed May Have Been a Rebel Shootdown of MH-17 A senior commander of Russian-backed proxy forces fighting in southeast Ukraine confirmed today that the separatist militias indeed have been armed with the model of medium-range anti-aircraft missile that the US and Ukrainian governments say was used last […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 23, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Russian Army Gunner Brags, ‘All Night We Pounded Ukraine’

By Irena Chalupa

Russian Soldiers and Paramilitaries Post Stories and Pictures of Their War on Ukraine Perhaps he was bragging, perhaps he thought he was doing his job and being patriotic. Whatever the reason, Russian army soldier Vadim Grigoriev recently piled on further evidence of Russia’s escalating – and increasingly direct – attacks on Ukraine. Using Russia’s version […]

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Protest in Prague, July 14, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 23, 2014

Putin’s Crime, Europe’s Cowardice

By Bernard-Henri Lévy, New York Times

Faced with this new Lockerbie, will we in the West do no more than beg Mr. Putin to provide “free and complete” access to the crash site and offer “full cooperation” in the recovery of remains?

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, May 8, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

President of Poland Calls for Strengthening NATO’s Eastern Flank

By Office of the President of Poland

The Ukrainian-Russian conflict is the biggest challenge for European security since the time of the Cold War, according to President Bronislaw Komorowski. The Polish president is in favour of strengthening NATO’s eastern flank.

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Event Recap

Jul 23, 2014

Roadmap for Ukraine

On Tuesday, July 22nd, the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center hosted a public forum on the Atlantic Council’s latest report, A Roadmap for Ukraine. The panelists included the Hon. John Herbst, Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council; Mr. David Koranyi, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Deputy Director; and Ms. Irena Chalupa, an […]

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In the News

Jul 23, 2014

Brzezinski: The West’s Response to MH17 Is Mostly “Rhetorical”

By Ian Brzezinski

CNBC quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski on the international response to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17:

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New Atlanticist

Jul 23, 2014

Amid All the Bad News, Ukraine Is Fighting Back: With Reforms

By Sabine Freizer

President, Prime Minister and Civil Society Groups Push for Transparency; Parliament and Bureaucracy Will Be Obstacles The past week’s news from Russia’s mad proxy war in southeast Ukraine has been brutally shocking: the shooting down of Flight MH17, the remains of passengers left in wheat fields and train cars as investigators negotiated with separatist thugs, […]

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