Review article
https://doi.org/10.37458/nstf.26.2.3
Russian-Ukrainian War: Lessons for NATO and Europe as of 2025
Daria Vilkova
orcid.org/0000-0001-5384-6884
; International Relations and Foreign Policy Department, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Abstract
The article traces the main lessons of Russian-Ukrainian war as of 2025. Recognizing the conflict in its continuity since 2014 as transformative for contemporary international relations, it offers a structured periodization and names the important stages. Five key lessons are identified: the return of industrial-scale warfare, the importance of strategic communication, fragmentation of the existing global order, the crisis in strategic imagination as well as the risks of conflict spillover. The study concludes that international relations are in the era of great-power competition with no clear vision of a sustainable security order.
Keywords
Russian-Ukrainian war; international security; warfare; global order; spillover effects.
Hrčak ID:
343301
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Publication date:
5.10.2025.
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