Russia-Ukraine: A Year of War
Ukrainians reflect on anniversary of Russian invasion
The anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a somber day for many of the country’s 43 million people. Ukrainians spoke with The Associated Press on Friday.
The calculus of war: Tallying Ukraine toll an elusive task
Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict. Estimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an incomplete picture of the deaths and suffering.
UN approves resolution calling for Russia to leave Ukraine
The U.N. General Assembly has passed a nonbinding resolution that calls for Russia to end hostilities and withdraw from its neighbor on the eve of the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion.
One year on, Ukrainians in U.S. cope with war, displacement
In New York, far from her home in northern Ukraine, Valeriya Roshkovan has tried to do what she can to bring an end to Russia’s invasion of her country.
Word war: In Russia-Ukraine war, information became a weapon
In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, disinformation and propaganda have emerged as key weapons in the Kremlin’s arsenal.
In Russia-Ukraine war, more disastrous path could lie ahead
One year after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine both countries are preparing for offensives that could set the stage for a potentially even more disastrous phase of the war.
Russia’s sports exile persists 1 year after invading Ukraine
Russia’s reintegration into the world of sports one year after the invasion of Ukraine began threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War.
AP PHOTOS: Images of war in Ukraine from cutting-room floor
Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic images from the war in Ukraine.
Photographers covering the war in Ukraine have shown the world its calamitous toll over and over: an injured pregnant woman carried away on a stretcher, a father saying goodbye to his fleeing wife and child through a train window, dozens of people sheltering under a damaged bridge.
Photographers covering the war in Ukraine have shown the world its calamitous toll over and over: an injured pregnant woman carried away on a stretcher, a father saying goodbye to his fleeing wife and child through a train window, dozens of people sheltering under a damaged bridge.
Germany’s military ‘turning point’ still a work in progress
Nearly a year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “turning point” that would trigger a massive increase in Germany’s military spending, the turnaround for his country’s armed forces still has a long way to go.
Global impact: 5 ways war in Ukraine has changed the world
War has been a catastrophe for Ukraine and a crisis for the globe. One year on, thousands of civilians are dead, and countless buildings have been destroyed.
Key moments in a year of war after Russia invaded Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has killed thousands, forced millions to flee their homes, reduced entire cities to rubble and fueled fears the confrontation could escalate into an open conflict between Russia and NATO.
Looking back on a year of war in Ukraine
One year ago, Russia launched Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, sending civilians fleeing for basement bunkers and their country’s borders.
Ukraine’s year of pain, death —and also nation-building
The first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is both grim and vexing as milestones go. It marks a full year of killing, destruction, loss and pain felt even beyond the borders of Russia and Ukraine.
In unlikely wartime role, Zelenskyy gives Ukrainians hope
Western leaders feared for the life of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a year ago and the U.S. offered him an escape route as Russian forces bore down on Ukraine’s capital.
Ukraine’s health care on the brink after hundreds of attacks
Researchers have documented more than 700 attacks against health care facilities and staff a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Biden’s test: Sustaining unity as Ukraine war enters Year 2
A year ago, President Joe Biden braced for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine.
Putin’s Ukraine gamble seen as biggest threat to his rule
Vladimir Putin says he learned from his boyhood brawls in his native St. Petersburg: “If you want to win a fight, you have to carry it through to the end, as if it were the most decisive battle of your life.”
Russia’s year of war: Purge of critics, surge of nationalism
In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, there has been a broad government crackdown that has silenced opposition to the war.
Ukraine invasion reshaped global alliances, renewed fears
Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the diplomatic consequences of the war still reverberate worldwide.
Ukrainian refugees safe, but not at peace, after year of war
Nearly a year has passed since the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion sent millions of people fleeing across Ukraine’s border into neighboring countries.
AP PHOTOS: Fading graveside portraits of Ukraine’s war dead
IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — The ghostly gazes of Ukraine’s war dead are losing definition.
At a cemetery in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, photographs affixed to headstones are almost imperceptible.
At a cemetery in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, photographs affixed to headstones are almost imperceptible.
Ukraine war saga unfolds across the lives of 5 friends
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes.
Ukraine aid support softens in the US: AP-NORC Poll
Support among the American public for providing Ukraine weaponry and direct economic assistance has softened as the Russian invasion nears a grim one-year milestone.
War in Ukraine at 1 year: Pain, resilience in global economy
One year after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the global economy is still enduring the consequences — crunched supplies of grain, fertilizer and energy along with more inflation and economic uncertainty in a world already contending with too much of both.
Love blossoms in Serbia between Ukrainian, Russian ‘enemies’
She is Ukrainian, he is Russian. They fell in love in cyberspace, playing an online game together. And just as they were about take their relationship to the next level, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pulled the rug from under them.
AP PHOTOS: In Ukraine, searing images capture a year of war
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago brought death, destruction and hardship to the country, and awakened fears of a new Cold War.
‘We couldn’t let go': War tears young Ukrainian family apart
University student Vlada Yushchenko was still in her teens and nearly three months pregnant when she hugged her husband at the border, turned away and walked into Moldova.
In pro-Putin Serbia, liberal-minded Russians seek a home
About 200,000 Russians have left their homeland for Serbia since the start of the war in Ukraine. Many are seeking a new life in a fraternal Slavic country free from Kremlin oppression.
Along Ukraine-Belarus border, a war of nerves — and drones
BELARUS BORDER, Ukraine (AP) — The reconnaissance drones fly several times a day from Ukrainian positions deep inside the thick forest that marches across the border into Belarus, a close Russian ally, scouring sky and land for signs of trouble on the other side.