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Oct 31, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Olesya Khromeychuk |Kate Spencer
The Financial Times has this week reported that Ukraine and Russia are engaged in preliminary talks over a possible mutual pause in air strikes against energy infrastructure. The news has sparked a degree of guarded optimism, with some speculating that a limited agreement protecting energy assets in both countries could pave the way for broader negotiations aimed at bringing the war to an end.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Kate Spencer |Olesya Khromeychuk |Mykola Bielieskov |Peter Malcolm Dickinson
Pentagon officials and NATO chief Mark Rutte have this week confirmed that thousands of North Korean troops are currently in the process of joining Russia’s war against Ukraine. The arrival of North Korean soldiers on the battlefields of Europe is an historically unprecedented event that represents a major escalation in the largest European invasion since World War II.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olesya Khromeychuk |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Giorgi Revishvili
The Russia-Ukraine War has become the proving ground for some of the latest innovations in military technology. This is most immediately apparent in the rapid evolution of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones. These range from reconnaissance and surveillance drones, which maintain an “eye in the sky” above the battle space, to combat UAVs that drop munitions and kamikaze drones used to strike enemy targets.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olesya Khromeychuk |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Maria Avdeeva
With international attention firmly fixed on the Russian army’s advances in eastern Ukraine and the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region, it is easy to overlook important developments taking place further south in Crimea. During 2024, Ukraine has achieved a number of strategic successes in and around the Russian-occupied peninsula that are worthy of closer attention and could shape the ultimate outcome of the war.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Mykhailo Fedorov |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Olesya Khromeychuk
As the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches its third winter, the biggest topic of debate is the reluctance among Kyiv’s key partners to sanction long-range attacks inside Russia using Western weapons. According to skeptics in Washington DC and elsewhere, deep strikes would pose an unacceptable risk and could spark a far wider war. In typical fashion, Russian President Vladimir Putin has exploited this Western fear of escalation.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Mykola Bielieskov |Peter J. Dickinson |Olesya Khromeychuk
A Ukrainian company that creates AI solutions for drones recently secured funding from a consortium of four foreign investors worth almost $3 million. This deal is one of the largest individual investments in the Ukrainian defense tech industry since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. It is part of a growing trend as investors increasingly recognize the appeal of Ukrainian defense tech innovations.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Giorgi Revishvili |Mykola Bielieskov |Olesya Khromeychuk |Peter Malcolm Dickinson
Vladimir Putin has this week proposed changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine that would significantly lower the threshold for the country’s use of nuclear weapons. Addressing a September 25 meeting of senior Kremlin officials, he presented a series of draft amendments aimed at expanding the scope for possible nuclear strikes.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Kateryna Odarchenko |Elena Davlikanova |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Olesya Khromeychuk
Ukraine conducted one of the largest and most effective drone attacks of the entire war in the early hours of September 18, causing a blast at a weapons depot deep inside Russia that was large enough to be picked up by earthquake monitoring stations. According to Ukrainian sources, the attack involved more than one hundred domestically produced long-range Ukrainian drones and targeted a major Russian arms storage facility in Toropets, a town in Russia’s Tver region northwest of Moscow.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Mykola Bielieskov |Olesya Khromeychuk
If Donald Trump wins the United States presidential election in November, he has pledged to bring the war in Ukraine to a swift end by brokering an agreement between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump himself has yet to elaborate on the terms of any potential deal, but his vice presidential pick, Senator JD Vance, recently provided some insight into what a Trump peace proposal might involve.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Mykola Bielieskov |Peter J. Dickinson |Olesya Khromeychuk
It is often said that armies always prepare to fight the previous war. This rings particularly true in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The sheer scale of the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin in February 2022 has exposed a lack of preparedness among the Western defense establishment, which has spent the past few decades focused on defeating lightly armed paramilitaries and terrorist networks.
