Anastasiia Lapatina

1 week ago | lawfaremedia.org | Anastasiia Lapatina |Tyler McBrien

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In the season finale of Escalation, Anastasiia Lapatina and Yulia Tymoshenko recount Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022. The western world is shocked, and U.S. President Joe Biden and the U.S. Congress attempt to send weapons to Ukraine to fight back.

3 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anastasiia Lapatina |Tyler McBrien

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With For today’s episode, we’re bringing you  the opening episode of our podcast Escalation. Escalation is a multi-part narrative podcast hosted by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina. Escalation lays bare the stakes of the Russo-Ukrainian War through powerful storytelling and compelling voices.

3 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Daniel Byman |Anastasiia Lapatina |Tyler McBrien

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In 2019, the relationship between The United States and Ukraine faces one of its biggest tests during a phone call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The resulting scandal makes Ukraine a toxic issue for some lawmakers in the US Congress, where Ukrainian veterans are still trying to generate support for the war to this day. Anastasiia Lapatina is a Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare.

1 month ago | lawfaremedia.org | Anastasiia Lapatina |Tyler McBrien |Benjamin Wittes

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With February 24, 2025, marked three years of Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion—three years of resilience, sacrifice, and a war that has reshaped global politics. As Ukraine faces mounting battlefield challenges and growing uncertainty over U.S. support, the war has reached a pivotal moment.

1 month ago | lawfaremedia.org | Tyler McBrien |Anastasiia Lapatina

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With A dirty presidential campaign in Ukraine culminates in an attempted assassination and ‘The Orange Revolution,’ where Ukrainians stop The Kremlin’s attempts to rig the election. Years later at a NATO summit in 2008, The United States and European allies concoct a high-risk plan to protect Ukraine going forward. Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare.