AP photos from Sri Lanka, Ukraine were Pulitzer finalists

Sri Lankans shout anti-government slogans while blocking the entrance to president’s office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 11, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

An injured protester grieves in pain as police fire tear gas to disperse protesting members of the Inter University Students Federation during an anti government protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 19, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

An injured student is carried by colleagues as police fire tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesting members of the Inter University Students Federation during an anti government protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 19, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Protesters storm Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Protesters swim as onlookers wait at a swimming pool in the president’s official residence a day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 10, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

People struggle as they enter the president’s official residence a day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, India, July 11, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A protester holds a portrait of former Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa upside down after storming Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office, demanding he resign after president Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Protesters cheer after storming the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Protesters climb the stairs after storming Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

An injured protester reacts in pain as he is shifted to hospital in an ambulance during clashes with police near parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

People use gym equipment as they take over President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence on the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 11, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

A protester sits on a chair surrounded by others after storming the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A Sri Lankan protester waves the national flag from the rooftop of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Motria Oleksiienko, 99, traumatized by the Russian occupation, is comforted by daughter-in-law Tetiana Oleksiienko in a room without heating in the village of Andriivka, Ukraine, which was heavily affected by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, April 6, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Elderly people are evacuated from a hospice in Chasiv Yar city, Donetsk district, Ukraine, April 18, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Valerii Ilchenko, 70, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, watches television in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, July 6, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Dr. Yurii Kuznetsov, left, helps nurses to move an elderly patient onto a bed at the hospital in Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 17, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A Ukrainian elderly woman eats a slice of bread inside a crowded railway station, Feb. 28, 2022, in Lviv, west Ukraine. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Viktor Holodeyev, 76, left, is tended to by a nurse while on an evacuation train with his wife, Tatiana, 72, as they depart from Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, to travel west to a safer part of the country, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Ukrainian injured servicemen and an injured civilian wait for medical treatment in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Elderly residents are evacuated by a local organization from the southern city of Kherson, Ukraine, Nov. 27, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Patients eat a meal in a shelter for injured and homeless people in Izium, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A woman reacts after receiving food donations from World Central Kitchen in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Vasyl Nevolov, an internally displaced Ukrainian from Kyiv, rests inside a theatre in the city of Drohobych, western Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo /Bernat Armangue)

Elena Holovko sits among debris while being helped outside her house that was damaged after a missile strike in Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

An elderly man lies at a hospice center in Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk district of Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A man looks at buildings destroyed during Russian attacks on Borodyanka on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Catherine, 70, looks out the window while holding a candle for light inside her house during a power outage, in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)