The Atlantic Council responded to this challenge in February 2014 by launching the Ukraine in Europe Initiative, with a focus on enhancing Ukraine’s security, advancing Ukraine’s reform process and economic prospects, and keeping attention on Russian-occupied Crimea. Regardless of the moment of origin, however, it became clear in 2014, after Russia’s seizure and annexation of Crimea and its covert war in Ukraine’s east, that this major challenge to international security required a decisive and comprehensive response. In hindsight, the West might have recognized and responded to Mr.
Unfortunately, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine today mock this vision and threaten the international order established at the end of the Cold War. In fact, many in our community aspired not only for a strategic partnership with Russia, but envisioned an alliance between Russia and NATO contributing to international stability and security. Russian cross-border artillery attacks on Ukraineįor twenty-five years, prominent members of the Atlantic Council community have worked to advance the vision of a Europe whole, free, and at peace in which Russia enjoys its peaceful place. Russian training camps on Ukraine’s border Russian military equipment in use in Ukraine Using digital forensics to expose Russia’s war in UkraineĪ steady flow of arms and military equipment from Russia to Eastern Ukraine
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A combination of satellite data, crater analysis, and open source materials confirms that many attacks originated in Russia.ĭownload the PDF (French) Table of contents During key offensives, Russian forces in Ukraine have received cover from Russian territory.A variety of Russian manufactured arms and munitions-not used by the Ukrainian military-have appeared in the hands of separatists, including shoulder launched surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS), various types of rocket launchers, anti-tank guided missiles, landmines, and various small arms.Commanders order Russian soldiers to conceal the identifying features of military vehicles, remove insignia from uniforms, and travel across the border to join separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.These camps are the staging ground for Russian military equipment transported into Ukraine, soon to join the separatist arsenal, and for Russian soldiers mobilized across Russia to cross into Ukraine. Russian training camps stationed along the Ukrainian border are the launching points of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Satellite images confirm the movement of Russian troops and camp buildups along the Ukrainian border.This report, the result of an Atlantic Council Working Group launched to examine direct Russian military involvement in Ukraine, has five key findings: Drawing upon open source information, Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine provides irrefutable evidence of direct Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to deny Russian involvement in the fighting, but the evidence is overwhelming and indisputable. Russian citizens and soldiers are fighting and dying in a war of their government’s own making.
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