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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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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Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, April 30, 2014

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Jun 3, 2014

President Komorowski: Russia has No Right to Block Deployment of NATO Troops and Infratructure in Poland

By Bronislaw Komorowski, White House

I also wish to stress that it is our common concern that, at the Wales summit, of NATO to reconfirm the need for the greater engagement of NATO in the development of infrastructure that would facilitate the reception of the reinforcement forces in case of threat.

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Webcasts

Jun 2, 2014

Google Hangout: The Battle for Truth

Join us Wednesday, June 4, at 11 a.m. for an online only discussion with Viktoria Siumar, Ukrainian National Security Council deputy, on how her government is overcoming the Russian disinformation machine. Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson will join us from Poland.

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New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Life in Wartime Donetsk; The Great Tradition of the NKVD

By Irena Chalupa

Ukraine’s war realities are increasingly being felt in its media. Stories about life under siege are frequent fare on the evening newscasts,  on news web sites and in traditional print media. Yevhen Shybalov, the Donetsk correspondent of Ukraine’s respected weekly newspaper Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Weekly Mirror), which is published both Ukrainian and Russian language versions, is a popular […]

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Tens of thousands of Ukrainians gather on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti in December, part of the three-month protest that brought down the Kremlin-dependent government of President Viktor Yanukovych. (CC License)

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2014

To Liberate Ukraine, Get the Maidan Back in the Fight

By James Rupert

Let’s consider for a moment what has worked, and not worked, in Ukraine’s fight for freedom from Russian domination. What worked was the Maidan – the massive, determined and (almost completely) non-violent protest movement that overthrew the corrupt, Kremlin-dependent President Viktor Yanukovych. What has not worked has been the Ukrainian government’s patchwork counter-insurgency offensive against […]

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Jun 2, 2014

Russia Warns of ‘Negative’ Consequences if Sweden and Finland Join NATO

By ITAR-TASS

The accession to NATO by Sweden and Finland will lead to dangerous negative changes in the Baltic Sea Region, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk, May 8, 2014

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Jun 2, 2014

German Official Discloses that NATO To Discuss Sending More Troops to Poland

NATO defence ministers will discuss temporarily reinforcing forces in Poland when they meet in Brussels this week

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In the News

Jun 2, 2014

Chrismer: Sanctions Must Go Global

By Andrew Chrismer

Global Business and Economics Program Assistant Director Andrew Chrismer writes for US News and World Report on why the United States must work to broaden future sanctions regimes to incorporate more countries: 

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Russian missile in Moscow Victory Day Parade

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Jun 2, 2014

Russia Announces Live Fire Missile Exercise During Obama Visit to Poland

By ITAR-TASS, RIA Novosti. and RT

From ITAR-TASS:  Russian military forces will hold live fire drills of missile systems Iskander-M and will test-launch missiles from bombers within the war games planned in missile formations in the Western Military District

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New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | June 2

By Irena Chalupa

Opinion-Makers: How Russia Is Winning the Propaganda War from Spiegel In Russian-ruled Crimea, a crackdown on journalists and activists who don’t toe Kremlin line from The Kyiv Post Russia’s FSB launches first Crimean show trial from Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Moscow Patriarchate Not Marching in Lockstep with Kremlin on Ukraine  from The Interpreter A Russian […]

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New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2014

Is the Crisis in Ukraine Pushing Sweden Towards NATO?

The crisis in Ukraine, as well as increased tensions in the Baltic Sea region, has stoked the public debate on security and defense in Sweden. On May 26, the Institute of International Affairs brought Nordic, European, and US perspectives together for a discussion on the future of Swedish defense cooperation and specifically its relationship with […]

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