Russia-Ukraine war

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Global audiences ride aboard secretive Ukraine war surveillance flight thanks to Only-on-AP exclusive

JAN. 26, 2024

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Fatalities

AP investigates Russia’s cover-up of deaths caused by dam explosion in Ukraine

JAN. 6, 2024

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In this image from March 4, 2022, surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government, Russian troops lead nine men at gunpoint to their headquarters at 144 Yablunska St. in Bucha, Ukraine, in a March 4, 2022 image from surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government. The men would be tortured and executed as part of what the Russians called “zachistka” – cleansing. The Russian occupiers hunted people on lists prepared by their intelligence services and went door to door to identify and neutralize potential threats. (Ukrainian government via AP)

Atrocities

‘Method to the violence’: Dogged investigation and groundbreaking visuals document Bucha ‘cleansing’

NOV. 11, 2022

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Olga Lopatkina embraces her adopted children in a park in Loue, western France, July 2, 2022. After two months of tense negotiation and an initial objection by a senior Russian official, Lopatkina successfully retrieved her children just before they seemed set to vanish completely. An AP investigation found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren’t wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship. (AP Photo / Jeremias Gonzalez)

Abductions

AP Investigation: Moscow taking Ukrainian kids to raise them as Russians

OCT. 21, 2022

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Andriy Kotsar, who was captured and tortured three times by Russian soldiers, sits at a table after a service at Pishchanskyi church in the recently liberated town of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 21, 2022. An AP investigation found that Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine, extending to both civilians and soldiers throughout the city. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)

Izium

AP’s on-the-ground investigation in Ukraine uncovers Russia’s torture sites — and survivors

OCT. 7, 2022

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Oleg Kotenko, Ukraine’s commissioner for issues of missing persons under special circumstances, uses his smartphone to record unidentified graves in the recently retaken city of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2022. President Volodymr Zelenskyy said hundreds of civilian adults and children, as well as Ukrainian soldiers, had been found at the mass grave site after being tortured, shot or killed by Russian shelling. The bodies of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers killed by Russian forces were discovered one of the war’s largest mass grave sites on the outskirts of the city, one of the first taken by Russian forces after the war started in February.. mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and unknown buried civilians was found in the forest of recently recaptured city of Izium. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)

Atrocities

AP Exclusive: First photos, video of mass burial site in recaptured Ukrainian city of Izium

SEPT. 23, 2022

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People from Mariupol and eastern Ukraine disembark from a train at the railway station in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, April 7, 2022, to be taken to temporary residences in the region. About 500 refugees from the Mariupol area arrived in Nizhny Novgorod on a special train organized by Russian authorities. Some 2 million people from Ukraine have found themselves in Russia, many of them forcibly transferred and subject to human rights violations, an AP investigation revealed. (AP Photo)

Displaced persons

AP investigation finds Ukrainian refugees forcibly evacuated, subjected to abuse in Russia

JULY 29, 2022

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Doctors help “Buffalo,” his nom de guerre, train with his new prosthetic limb at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2022. Buffalo, a 20-year-old junior sergeant whose leg was shredded by mortar rounds, is among the wounded evacuated in daring helicopter missions during the last-ditch defense of the Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol. A junior sergeant, heon the trail of a Russian tank, aiming to destroy it with his shoulder-launched, armor-piercing NLAW missile on the last day of the invasion’s first month A fight-crew member took his hand and told him not to worry, they'd make it home."I told him, 'All my life, I dreamed of flying a helicopter. It doesn't matter if we arrive — my dream has come true,'" Buffalo recalled. (AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko)

Azovstal steel plant

Exclusive all-formats interviews reveal ‘impossible’ helicopter rescue missions to Mariupol

JULY 1, 2022

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Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, looks in the mirror and turns off her camera in Mariupol, Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. Using a body camera, she recorded her team's frantic efforts to bring people back from the brink of death. (Yuliia Paievska via AP)

Fatalities

Ukrainian medic gives AP exclusive bodycam video revealing the tragedy of Mariupol

MAY 27, 2022

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At left, residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, wait for food at the field kitchen outside the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre, March 9, 2022.. The theater was in use as the city’s main bomb shelter when a Russian airstrike destroyed much of the building on March 16. Survivors say at least 100 people were at the field kitchen at the time of the attack; none of them survived. At right, on March 17, one day after the attack, rubble covers the area where the field kitchen stood. Survivors say about 1,000 people were in the building at the time of the airstrike. AP’s reconstruction of the incident shows about 600 people died in the attack.on March 17, 2022, in Mariupol, Ukraine. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war. (Lev Sandalov via AP) AP Photo / Alexei Alexandrov

Fatalities

Unique AP visual investigation points to 600 dead in airstrike on Mariupol theater

MAY 13, 2022

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Dr. Marta Kopan, 38 weeks pregnant, holds her 6-year-old son Nazar, April 3, 2022, at an apartment in Lviv, western Ukraine, loaned to them by a cousin after the family fled their home in Kyiv. The place in Kyiv where Marta was meant to give birth was bombed. Her birth plan, like almost everything else, was left behind. (AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty)

Housing

Inside a Lviv apartment building, AP team gives a glimpse of life for displaced Ukrainians

APRIL 29, 2022

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in a hallwayEDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Nina Shevchenko mourns in a hallway beside the body of her 15-year-old son Artem, who was killed in a Russian attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 15, 2022. “I lived for you,” she told her son. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Collaborators

Powerful AP reporting from Kharkiv documents the horror of civilians under Russian attack

APRIL 22, 2022

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