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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French President François Hollande and President Barack Obama, Feb. 11, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Members of Congress Urge Obama to Make Personal Appeal to Stop Mistral Sale to Russia

By Mark R. Warner, Mark Kirk, Adam Kinzinger, and William R. Keating

Text of letter to President Barack Obama from US lawmakers.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Barack Obama, March 6, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Special Summit Series: The United States and NATO

By James Joyner

In the run-up to September’s NATO summit in Wales, the Obama administration is sending decidedly mixed signals to its European allies, simultaneously demanding that they contribute more to their own security and signaling that they needn’t bother.

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In the News

Jul 23, 2014

Wilson on Regional Implications of Downed MH17

By Damon Wilson

Atlantic Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson joins MSNBC’s The Cycle to discuss the two Ukrainian military planes that were shot down nearly sixteen miles away from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Watch the full interview here.

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Jul 23, 2014

Protecting Ukraine Means Supplementing the OSCE

By James Rupert

International Diplomacy on the Russia-Ukraine War Has Been Dominated by Moscow As the international community works both to calm the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in southeast Ukraine and to assure a credible investigation of the Malaysian Airlines disaster there, the main body in that effort is the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe. But the OSCE […]

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French snipers, February 16, 2012

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Jul 22, 2014

Shouldn’t Europe Pay More for its Own Defense?

By Graham Allison, Los Angeles Times

Two decades after the end of the Cold War, the twin trends of overdependence on U.S. power and underinvestment in military might have left European defenses at risk of becoming dangerously irrelevant.

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In the News

Jul 22, 2014

Karatnycky on New EU Sanctions

By Adrian Karatnycky

USA Today quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on new sanctions imposed against Russia by the European Union:

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In the News

Jul 22, 2014

Chalupa on the Pro-Russian Separatist Leader of Donetsk

By Irene Chalupa

The Washington Post quotes Atlantic Council Writer/Editor Irene Chalupa on Alexander Borodai, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the pro-Russian separatist Donetsk People’s Republic:

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In the News

Jul 22, 2014

Wilson on Role of Separatists in MH17 Downing

By Damon Wilson

Atlantic Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson joins BBC World News to discuss the role of pro-Russian separatists in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17:

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In the News

Jul 22, 2014

Pham on Flying Over Unstable Territory

By J. Peter Pham

The Associated Press quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the dangers that the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 illustrates in flights over unstable territory:

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In the News

Jul 22, 2014

Herbst: “If Putin Wins in Eastern Ukraine, He’s Not Going to Stop”

By John Herbst

The Minneapolis Star Tribune quotes Eurasia Center Director John Herbst on what actions Europe should take against Russian President Vladimir Putin following the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17:

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