EVGENIY MALOLETKA

Alyona Zavadska, 16, cries near the coffin of her boyfriend Danylo Khudia, 17, killed in a Russian strike along with his parents, Viktoria and Oleh Khudia on April 24, during a farewell ceremony at the crematorium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
A young couple in Ukraine delighted in first love. Then the war came for them
A young couple in Kyiv surprised their parents with the intensity of their first love. As Ukraine’s war with Russia roiled around them, they felt at peace and prepared to build a life. Months ago, the girl dreamed the boy’s house would be destroyed.
 
An injured woman sits near her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike, in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
AP PHOTOS: Kyiv pummeled by deadly Russian drone and missile strikes
The Kyiv City Military Administration said on its Telegram channel that Russia struck Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles. At least 42 people were hospitalized, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. Rescue operations were still underway early morning Thursday to find bodies under the rubble.
 
Leonid Lobchuk, a soldier with Ukraine's 127th brigade who lost a leg in combat in eastern Ukraine in 2015, smiles in front of a self propelled howitzer in Kharkiv region region, Ukraine, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
AP PHOTOS: Ukrainian soldiers who returned to the battlefield after amputation
They were among 380,000 soldiers who were wounded, according to the latest numbers provided by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He also said that 46,000 military were killed over the course of the war, and tens of thousands are considered missing or in captivity.
 
Andrii Rubliuk, a senior sergeant with a Ukrainian intelligence unit who lost both arms and a leg in combat, holds a rifle during military training near Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Wounded, recovered and back to war. Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after amputation
Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs in the three-year war against Russia are returning to the battlefield out of a sense of duty amid the grim outlook for their country.
 
Ukrainian servicemen of 148th artillery brigade fire by a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline on Velyka Novosilka direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian troops losing ground to Russia as Trump talks of ending war
A shortage of infantry troops and supply routes under Russian drone attacks have dealt a blow to Ukrainian forces around the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk.
 
Children stand under a play parachute during an event organized by the local NGO Ukrainian Frontiers during celebration St. Nicholas Day in Izium, Ukraine, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
‘Reindeer’ volunteers bring holiday magic to Ukrainian children living on the frontlines
A volunteer group is trying to fulfill the holiday dreams of thousands of children living near the frontlines in Ukraine. The St. Nicholas’ Reindeers initiative publishes letters online detailing the children’s wishes.
 
A man rides on a bike in front of the mail office which was destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Kurakhove, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka)
As Russian forces close in on Kurakhove, hundreds of residents remain in the front-line city
On Ukraine’s eastern front, Kurakhove is surrounded on three sides, with Russian forces just under 2 miles from the devastated city center.
 
U.S. historian and author Timothy Snyder gives autographs on his books before charity run to raise awareness on Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Russia, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
US historian leads charity run in Kyiv to highlight the plight of Ukrainian POWs
U.S. historian and author Timothy Snyder has led a charity run in Kyiv to raise awareness of the conditions under which Ukrainian prisoners of war are held in Russia as the conflict approaches a third winter.
 
Prisoners stand behind the fence in the barrack's yard in a prison, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Friday, June 21, 2024. Ukraine is expanding its military recruiting to cope with battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukraine is releasing thousands of prisoners so they can join the fight against Russia
Ukraine is expanding its military recruiting to cope with battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion. That, for the first time, includes inmates at the country’s prisons and penal colonies.
 
A police officer covers a body of a man who was killed by a Russian attack on Nova Poshta delivery in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 30, 2024. One person was killed and several were injured. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Zelenskyy appeals to West to relax targeting limits for Ukraine as glide bombs hammer front line
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia dropped more than 800 glide bombs in Ukraine in the past week alone and appealed to Western countries to further relax targeting restrictions inside Russia.
 
Tetiana, 82, cries with her daughter as she is evacuated from Vovchansk, Ukraine, Saturday, May 11, 2024. Her husband was killed in their house after a Russian airstrike on the city. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russia says it has captured 5 villages in northeast Ukraine as more than 1,700 civilians flee
The Russian Defense Ministry says Moscow’s forces have captured five villages in a renewed ground assault in northeastern Ukraine.
 
Ukrainian drone video provides a grim look at casualties as Russian troops advance toward Avdiivka 1
As Russian forces press forward with an attempt to capture the town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press obtained aerial footage that indicates their staggering losses.
 
Roman Yarmolenko, a Ukrainian soldier from the 93rd brigade, learns to walk on a prosthetic leg. He crosses rough, muddy terrain outside the Unbroken rehabilitation center in Lviv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Ukraine is facing the prospect of a future with upwards of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI
Ukraine is facing a future with upward of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front.