SAMYA KULLAB

Kyrylo Illiashenko, 13, sits on a hospital bed, Monday, April 14, 2025, after being injured on Sunday by a Russian missile strike on Sumy, Ukraine, while trying to help others evacuate a burning bus that he later exited through a shattered window. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
In the Ukrainian city of Sumy, life goes on despite the constant threat of attack
The humdrum of daily life in Sumy belies the constant threat of death its people have lived with since Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago.
 
A dead body lies on the ground after a Russian missile strike on Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Volodymyr Hordiienko)
Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday celebrations, killing more than 30
Russian missiles struck the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday. Officials say the strike killed at least 34 people. It was the second large-scale attack to claim civilian lives in just over a week.
 
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanised Brigade press service, Ukrainian servicemen fire a multiple launch rocket system based on a pickup truck in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanised Brigade via AP)
Ukraine says more than 150 Chinese mercenaries are fighting for Russia in Ukraine
Ukraine has expanded on its claim that significant numbers of Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia’s invading army, saying it had gathered detailed intelligence on more than 150 mercenaries Moscow allegedly recruited through social media.
 
Oksana Polischuk, 51, descendes by lift into a coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 30, 2025. Polischuk, lost her husband on a war, she became an IDP in Poland. She decided to return to Ukraine and be useful for her country working on a coal mine underground. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
As war draws men to fight, Ukraine’s women take tough new jobs in machinery and mines
Ukrainian women are taking jobs once reserved for men, who are being drafted for the war with Russia. Some women are now driving tractors and working in coal mines. It’s a cultural shift and an economic necessity.
 
In this provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, servicemen of 3rd mechanized battalion, practice on the training ground at an undisclosed location in the east of Ukraine, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)
Ukrainians expect Russia to launch a fresh offensive to strengthen its negotiating position
Russian forces are preparing to launch a fresh military offensive in the coming weeks to maximize the pressure on Ukraine and strengthen the Kremlin’s negotiating position in ceasefire talks.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the supervisory board of the Movement of the First, Russian public-and-state children and youth organisation, at the Russia National Centre in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Things to know about the limited ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine brokered by the US
After three days of intense negotiations, the Trump administration, Ukraine and Russia agreed to a limited ceasefire in which the key details, including what was covered and how it will start, were disputed by the warring sides.
 
A resident watches as his neighbour cleans up the damaged apartment in a multi-storey house after a Russian night drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A Russian drone attack kills 7 in Ukraine ahead of ceasefire talks
At least seven people were killed when Russia launched a barrage of drones across Ukraine overnight, according to local Ukrainian officials and emergency services.
 
Police officers carry the body of a person killed by a Russian drone strike in a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
3 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia despite truce talks
Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have struck the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 14. The attack Friday night set fire to residential buildings, cars and infrastructure despite Moscow agreeing to a limited ceasefire.
 
In this combination of file photos, President Donald Trump, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, are seen at the Elysee Palace, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris, and President Vladimir Putin, right, addresses a Technology Forum in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, left and center, Pavel Bednyakov, right)
Ukraine and Russia have conditions that could affect a ceasefire. What are they willing to concede?
A ceasefire in Russia’s 3-year-old war in Ukraine hinges on Moscow accepting the U.S. proposal of a 30-day pause in fighting as a confidence-building measure for both sides to hammer out a longer-term peace plan.
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a fire engine and school buses burn after a Russian drone hit them when firefighters were putting out the fire at a lyceum following Russian drone attack in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Russia and Ukraine trade overnight aerial attacks after Putin sets out conditions for ceasefire
Russia and Ukraine have traded heavy aerial blows with both sides reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories overnight.
 
In this image made from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov as he visits military headquarters in the Kursk region of Russia. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Ukraine loses a ceasefire bargaining chip as its troops cede ground in Russia
As momentum builds for a ceasefire with Russia, Ukraine has lost a valuable bargaining chip. The Ukrainian army stunned Russia in August by attacking across the border and taking control of more than 1,300 square kilometers of land.
 
Ukrainian serviceman of Khartia brigade known by call sign "Krystal" fires M101 Howitzer towards Russian positions in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
US arms flow to Ukraine again as the Kremlin mulls a ceasefire proposal
Ukrainian and Polish officials say U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed. The deliveries came Wednesday, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its war against Russia and Ukrainian officials signaled they were open to a 30-day ceasefire backed b
 
French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, , shakes hands with Colonel-General Ruslan Khomchak, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, as French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu, right, and Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces Thierry Burkhard, left, look on during a meeting on the conflict in Ukraine at the Musee de la Marine as part of the Paris Defense and Strategy Forum in Paris, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP)
Deterrence is a key issue as army chiefs from 30-plus countries talk about a Ukraine force
Ukraine was hoping for answers to key questions as European army chiefs and other military officials from over 30 countries met in Paris for talks on an international force for Ukraine after any ceasefire.
 
Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the front line near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)
Ukraine will struggle to strike targets inside Russia without US intelligence
The U.S. decision to stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine hobbles its ability to strike and defend against the Russian army. That increases the pressure on it to accept a peace deal being pushed by the Trump administration.
 
A Ukrainian serviceman prepares to fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)
Zelenskyy calls Oval Office spat with Trump ‘regrettable,’ says he’s ready to work for Ukraine peace
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says last week’s Oval Office blowup with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump was “regrettable,” and he adds, “It is time to make things right.”
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes part in a plenary during the Securing our Future Summit on Ukraine and European security at Lancaster House in London, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
Without US help, Zelenskyy has few options except to repair his relationship with the White House
Ukraine’s president has few options after last week’s astonishing Oval Office row with U.S. President Donald Trump, who berated the wartime leader.
 
Steel melting workers chat at work at the Zaporizhstal Iron and Steelworks, one of the country's largest steel plants, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Trump’s tariffs expose Ukraine’s steel industry to another war
One of Ukraine’s largest steel plants lies in the country’s industrial east, where Russia’s 3-year invasion of its neighbor threatens to throttle production at any moment.
 
An aerial view of an ilmenite open pit mine in a canyon in the central region of Kirovohrad, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
In Ukraine, a potential arms-for-minerals deal inspires hope and skepticism
Ukraine boasts vast reserves of ilmenite, a key element used to produce titanium, in the heavy mineral sands that stretch for miles along the country’s embattled east. Much of it is underdeveloped because of war as well as onerous state policies.
 
President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
The US and Ukraine are closing in on a mineral deal. What changed, and what comes next?
Ukraine has offered to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump for continued American military aid in exchange for developing Ukraine’s mineral industry.
 
In this image provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out a fire following a Russian missile attack on the country's energy system in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Dec. 25, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP, File)
Russian attacks near Ukrainian nuclear infrastructure heighten scrutiny of Kyiv’s preparedness
Despite more than a year of warnings that critical Ukrainian nuclear energy infrastructure sites are vulnerable to potential Russian attacks, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry has failed to act swiftly to protect them, government officials have told The Associated Press.
 
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.
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Takeaways from the AP interview with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
The Associated Press interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a crucial juncture of the nearly three-year war against Russia’s full-scale invasion. U.S.
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
AP Interview: Zelenskyy says excluding Ukraine from US-Russia talks about war is ‘very dangerous’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that excluding his country from talks between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be “very dangerous.”
 
Solar panels system funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are seen in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Majdal Anjar, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting from Africa to Asia to Ukraine. Here’s how
U.S-funded aid programs around the world have begun firing staff and preparing to shut down their operations as an unprecedented Trump administration freeze on foreign assistance brings their work to a sudden halt.
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shakes hands with President of Moldova Maia Sandu in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
US has not stopped military aid to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. has not stopped military aid to Ukraine after newly sworn in U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days.
 
A Ukrainian brigade fires a self-propelled howitzer toward Russian front-line positions in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Europe considers sending troops to Ukraine if there’s a ceasefire. But would Russia accept?
With Russia wearing down Ukraine’s stretched forces and U.S. President Donald Trump pressuring the two sides to end their nearly 3-year-old war, Kyiv and some of its European allies are discussing how that might be achieved in a way that would guarantee Ukraine’s future security.
 
Soccer players of AMP FC Kyiv and Pokrova FC-2 play during the first football tournament for war-wounded amputees in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukraine holds first soccer tournament for war-wounded amputees — and plans to go international
The players were chosen from among the thousands of Ukrainians wounded in the war. With limbs lost to Russian attacks, they gathered at a stadium in Kyiv over the weekend.
 
According to this photo taken from video distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, a Ukrainian tank burns after being hit by a Russian drone near the settlement of Vozdvizhenka, eastern Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Russian forces bypass a key stronghold in a bid to cut off its supplies, a Ukrainian officer says
A Ukrainian official says Russian forces are bypassing a key stronghold in eastern Ukraine that they have fought for months to capture and are focusing instead on cutting supply lines to it. Maj.
 
During a funeral ceremony in Irpin, the Kyiv region of Ukraine, on Nov. 21, serviceman Roman bids farewell to a comrade from the 47th Brigade -- Serhii Solovyov -- who was killed during fighting with Russian Forces in Kursk on November 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Bloodied Ukrainian troops risk losing more hard-won land in Kursk to Russia
Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied by daily combat losses and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk. Some want to stay in the region at all costs.
 
Injured Ukrainian servicemen arrive from the battlefield at Medical Service "Ulf" of the 108th Separate Battalion "Da Vinci Wolves" on Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukraine’s military intelligence says North Korean troops are suffering heavy battlefield losses
Ukraine’s military intelligence says North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses in Russia’s Kursk region and face logistical difficulties as a result of Ukrainian attacks.
 
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