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Sep 1, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olivia Yanchik |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Oleksiy Goncharenko
Evacuation efforts are currently accelerating in eastern Ukraine’s Pokrovsk as the Russian military draws closer. Residents are fleeing amid fears their hometown will soon become the latest in a growing list of Ukrainian cities reduced to rubble by Putin’s invading army. Pokrovsk has long been an important Russian objective. Located on a crucial road connecting eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province with neighboring Dnipro region, the city serves as a key logistical hub for the Ukrainian military.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olivia Yanchik |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Oleksiy Goncharenko
On August 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted a bill to the Ukrainian parliament on ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which would make Ukraine an ICC member state. Parliament duly ratified the bill on August 21, and President Zelenskyy signed it into law on August 24. This is a positive step for accountability, and is in line with the Ukrainian government’s ongoing support for international justice efforts.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olivia Yanchik |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Mykola Bielieskov
Ukraine officially began accession talks with the European Union on June 25. While these negotiations offer hope for a nation that has long sought more comprehensive integration with European political and economic structures, they will also be qualified by contemporary security and political considerations. To achieve EU accession, Ukraine must strengthen its defense capabilities, execute administrative reforms within its judiciary, and implement a multi-sector approach to corruption.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Brian Whitmore |Olivia Yanchik |Peter J. Dickinson |Mark Temnycky
In the space of just two weeks, Ukraine has claimed more Russian land than Putin’s army managed to seize in Ukraine since the start of 2024. Kyiv’s bold summer offensive caught the Kremlin completely off-guard and has transformed perceptions of a war that many believed was moving slowly but surely toward an inevitable Russian victory. Rarely in the history of modern warfare has any military succeeded in pulling off such a stunning surprise.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Mark Temnycky |Olivia Yanchik
The recent appearance of F-16 fighter jets in the skies above Ukraine is a victory for all Ukrainians, and particularly for the relatively small group of people who worked tirelessly to promote the idea of delivering the planes. The push to secure F-16s began as a grassroots effort initiated by Ukrainian civil society and the military, before being taken on by the country’s political leadership.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Peter J. Dickinson |Mark Temnycky |Olivia Yanchik
Throughout Russian-occupied Ukraine, efforts continue to systematically erase all traces of Ukrainian national memory. This campaign against monuments and memorials is chilling proof that Russia’s invasion goes far beyond mere border revisions and ultimately aims to wipe Ukraine off the map entirely. The modern history of a single park in east Ukrainian city Luhansk offers insights into the memory war currently being waged by the Kremlin.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Mykola Bielieskov |Olivia Yanchik
When Russian soldiers occupied Borodyanka in February 2022, one of their first acts was to shoot the town’s monument to Ukrainian national bard Taras Shevchenko in the head. This symbolic display of hostility toward Ukrainian identity captured the essence of the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin. Today’s invasion is the latest chapter in a far longer history of Russian imperial aggression against Ukraine.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Mykola Bielieskov |Olivia Yanchik |Peter Malcolm Dickinson
Ukrainian drones struck a major oil refinery in southern Russia early on January 25, sparking a blaze that highlighted an emerging new front in the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin almost two years ago. The incident was the latest in a series of recent attacks on Russian energy infrastructure as Ukraine seeks to bring the war home to Russia by targeting the country’s vital but vulnerable oil and gas industry.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olivia Yanchik |Peter Malcolm Dickinson
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened 2024 with a barrage of airstrikes across Ukraine using a mixture of missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones. The attack included the unwelcome addition of North Korean-supplied short-range ballistic missiles, a worrying development confirmed by both Washington and Kyiv. North Korea’s supply of missiles to Russia marks an escalation in Pyongyang’s support for Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olivia Yanchik |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Mykola Bielieskov
US-based international press freedom NGO the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is into a series of recent Russian air strikes in Ukraine that injured journalists covering the war. The missile attacks in late December targeted a number of hotels known for hosting visiting international correspondents and representatives of international aid organizations.
