Russia-Ukraine: A Year of War

Olha Kosianchuk, 64, cries during a memorial service to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the Russia Ukraine war, in Bucha, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. Olha's husband was killed during the occupation of Bucha by Russian troops during the first weeks of the war. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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.

Olha Kosianchuk, 64, cries during a memorial service to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the Russia Ukraine war, in Bucha, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. Olha's husband was killed during the occupation of Bucha by Russian troops during the first weeks of the war. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

As Ukraine marks year of war, leader vows to secure victory

Policemen detain a man who has laid flowers to the monument of Ukrainian author Taras Shevchenko to mark one year since the start of the Russian campaign in Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. OVD-Info, a group that tracks political arrests, said that several people were detained in St. Petersburg after bringing flowers to the Shevchenko monument. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Russians mark Ukraine war anniversary with flowers, arrests

A little girl holds a heart shaped cutout in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, during a protest against Russia's war on Ukraine, marking the first anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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FILE - Internally displaced people look out from a bus at a refugee center in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. 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 complete picture of the deaths and suffering. Precise figures may never emerge for some of the categories international organizations are attempting to track. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

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.

Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock address the United Nations General Assembly before a vote for a U.N. resolution upholding Ukraine's territorial integrity and calling for a cessation of hostilities after Russia's invasion, Thursday Feb. 23, 2023 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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.

Valeriya Roshkovan pauses during an interview as she volunteers for Razom for Ukraine, a New York-based nonprofit, to help package donated firefighting equipment to ship to her country, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Woodbridge Township, N.J. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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.

FILE - Destroyed Russian armored vehicles sit on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 31, 2022. In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, disinformation and propaganda have emerged as key weapons in the Kremlin's arsenal. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

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.

FILE - This handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Oct. 4, 2022, shows a Grad multiple rocket launcher firing at Ukrainian troops at an undisclosed location. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP, File)

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.

FILE - A Russian flag is held above the Olympic Rings at Adler Arena Skating Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Feb. 18, 2014. Russia and its ally Belarus have been invited to compete at the Asian Games in the next step to qualify athletes for next year's Paris Olympics. One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia's reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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.

FILE -- A Leopard 2 tank is seen in action during a visit of German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at the Bundeswehr tank battalion 203 at the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks in Augustdorf, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Nearly a year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a 'turning point' that would trigger German weapons supplies to a country at war and a massive increase in spending on the German armed forces, his country’s military turnaround still has a long way to go. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)

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.

FILE - A Ukrainian volunteer Oleksandr Osetynskyi, 44 holds a Ukrainian flag and directs hundreds of refugees after fleeing from the Ukraine and arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Monday, March 7, 2022. 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. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been killed or wounded on each side. Beyond Ukraine’s borders, the invasion shattered European security, redrew nations’ relations with one another and frayed a tightly woven global economy. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File)

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.

Svitlana kneels next to the coffin of her husband Serhii, 48, during his funeral in Tarasivka village, near Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. Serhii Havryliuk, an officer of the Azov Assault Brigade, died while defending the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol on April 12, 2022 against the Russians. Serhii has finally been buried after DNA tests confirmed his identity. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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.

An explosion erupts from an apartment building at 110 Mytropolytska St., after a Russian army tank fired on it in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. On the seventh floor of the building, two elderly women Lydya and Nataliya were stuck in their apartment because they couldn't make it down to the shelter, and were killed in the explosion. The two heavily burned bodies were buried by neighbors in front of the building. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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.

FILE - Ukrainians cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. As milestones go, the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is both grim and vexing. It marks a full year of killing, destruction, loss and pain felt even beyond the borders of Russia and Ukraine. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

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.

FILE - President Joe Biden welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. A year ago, with Russian forces bearing down on Ukraine’s capital, Western leaders feared for the life of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the U.S. offered him an escape route. Zelenskyy declined, declaring his intent to stay and defend Ukraine’s independence. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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.

Valentyna Mozgova, 55, a lab medic walks in the corridor of a hospital which was damaged by Russian shelling in Krasnohorivka, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. A year into Russia's war in Ukraine, researchers have documented more than 700 attacks against health care facilities and staff. The data was verified by five organizations working in Ukraine and released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Dec. 21, 2022, in Washington. One year ago, Biden braced for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine. But as Russia’s deadly invasion reaches the one year mark, Kyiv stands and Ukraine has exceeded even its own expectations. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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.

FILE - President Vladimir Putin speaks in his annual televised New Year's message after a ceremony during a visit to the headquarters of the Southern Military District, at an unknown location in Russia, Dec. 31, 2022. American and allied sanctions and export controls are constraining Russia’s ability to wage war on Ukraine by degrading its military, a top Treasury Department official says. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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.”

Cars in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, drive past a building decorated with a huge letter “Z,” which has become a symbol of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, along with a hashtag reading, "We don't abandon our own." The symbols serve as reminders of the conflict that has dragged on for a year. (AP Photo, File)

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.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ukraine invasion reshaped global alliances, renewed fears

Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the diplomatic consequences of the war still reverberate worldwide.

A young Ukrainian girl reflects in a window as she plays at a counselling center run in sponsorship with UNICEF to support refugees in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Nearly a year has passed since the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion sent millions of people fleeing across Ukraine's border into neighboring Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania. At the Warsaw center, psychologists describe treating crying children, teenagers separated from everything they know, mothers unknowingly transferring trauma to their kids. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

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.

A worn-out portrait of Dmytro Andriyovych, 34, sits on his grave at a cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. He was buried on April 26, 2022. Exposed to rain, sun and frost over the course of a war that began nearly a year ago, the graveside portraits' once bright hues are fading away and yellow stains and mold are encroaching. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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.

Anastasiia Okhrimenko, left, and Anna Korostenska visit the cemetery together in Bucha, Ukraine, where their partners are buried, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. As the conflict that killed their loved ones still rages on, Anna, Anastasiia and her brother, Vadym wrestle with a question that all of war-torn Ukraine must grapple with: After loss, what comes next? (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

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.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Dec. 21, 2022, in Washington. 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. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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.

A worker serves customers at a food stall in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Feb 2, 2023. Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, punishingly high food prices are inflicting particular hardship on the world’s poor. In Jakarta, vendors know they can’t pass along surging food prices to their already struggling customers. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

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.

Mariia Vyhivska, from Ukraine, left, and Iurii Kurochkin, from Russia, pose with a heart-shaped sign on the banks of the Ada Ciganlija Lake, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. Vyhivska and Kurochkin fell in love before Russia invaded Ukraine, while playing an online video game. To get together, they had to leave their homes and defy hatred generated by war. An estimated 200,000 Russians and some 20,000 Ukrainians have come to Serbia in the past year. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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.

A man runs after recovering items from a burning shop following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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.

Vlada Yushchenko, a 19-year-old Ukrainian refugee, holds her son Daniel, during an interview with The Associated Press in Brasov, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. 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. Now she’s in Romania, one of the millions of Ukrainians forced to flee Russia’s invasion of their country. Her baby, Daniel, was born there eight months ago and still hasn’t met his father Yaroslav, who is 21 and, like most men of fighting age, prohibited from leaving Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

‘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.

A vendor sells refrigerator magnets showing a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on main pedestrian street in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, about 200,000 Russians have left their homeland for Serbia, with many seeking a new life in a fraternal Slavic country free from Kremlin oppression. The Balkan country is a close ally of Moscow, with historic, religious and cultural ties, and Russia backs Serbia’s claim over its former province of Kosovo.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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.

A Ukrainian serviceman controls a drone during a demonstration close to the border with Belarus, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Reconnaissance drones fly several times a day from Ukrainian positions across the border into Belarus, a close Russian ally, scouring for signs of trouble on the other side. Ukrainian units are monitoring the 1,000-kilometer (650-mile) frontier of marsh and woodland for a possible surprise offensive from the north, a repeat of the unsuccessful Russian thrust towards Kyiv at the start of the war nearly a year ago. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

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.