Russia-Ukraine war

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, is greeted by President Donald Trump, center, as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump pauses US military aid to Ukraine while pressuring Zelenskyy to move toward quick end to war

President Donald Trump has directed a “pause” to U.S. assistance to Ukraine after a disastrous Oval Office meeting as he seeks to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in negotiations to end the war with Russia.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with the Head of Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Mar. 3, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia relishes Trump-Zelenskyy spat and accuses Ukraine and European allies of warmongering

March 3
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)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says end of war with Russia is ‘very, very far away’

March 3
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Hegseth orders suspension of Pentagon’s offensive cyberoperations against Russia

March 3
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

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1,000 days of the Russia-Ukraine war

Since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides.
Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her destroyed apartment building following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her destroyed apartment building following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Images capture war in Ukraine

A thousand days of war in Ukraine have been captured in stunning images, many of them horrifying, some of them poignant, others uplifting.
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Russia grinds deeper into Ukraine nearly three years into grueling war

November 17, 2024

A makeshift memorial grows in Ukraine’s capital

November 18, 2024

RUSSIA’S FREED DISSIDENTS

Several Russian dissidents were released in a historic prisoner swap with the U.S. that was the largest in post-Soviet history.
Oleg Orlov, co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Human Rights group Memorial, poses for a portrait after an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Veteran human rights advocate freed in swap says Russia is sliding back toward Stalinist times

August 9, 2024
(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

What’s life like for Russia’s political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment

February 27, 2024
Freed Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko, left, and her partner, Sofya Subbotina, kiss in a park in Koblenz, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Russian artist released in swap builds a new life in Germany, now free to marry her partner

August 13, 2024
Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin speaks during an event with supporters at the Mauerpark in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, after being freed in a prisoner swap. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

For freed Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin, resuming work against Putin is his priority

August 9, 2024
FILE - Police detain a man trying to lay flowers to honor Alexei Navalny at a monument in St. Petersburg, Russia, to victims of Soviet repression, on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin's Russia evolved from a country that tolerates at least some dissent to one that ruthlessly suppresses it. Arrests, trials and long prison terms — once rare — are commonplace. (AP Photo, File)

How Putin’s crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader’s 24 years in power

March 6, 2024
Andrei Pivovarov, a Russian dissident freed in the Aug. 1 East-West prisoner swap, right, and his wife, Tatyana Usmanova, pose for a photo before an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)

Longest-held Russian dissident freed in swap says ‘colors get brighter by the day’ in his new life

August 14, 2024

MORE COVERAGE OF THE WAR
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

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the European leaders' summit to discuss Ukraine, at Lancaster House, London, Sunday March 2, 2025. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

Britain’s Starmer says Europe must take responsibility for defending itself

March 2
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pauses during a interview with Bret Baier during a taping of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Latest: Most European leaders back Zelenskyy as he joins crisis talks in London

March 1
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macron in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

Trump says Zelenskyy is coming to the White House to sign US-Ukraine critical minerals deal

February 26
Latvia Foreign Minister Baiba Braze addresses the UN Security Council, at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Latvia FM: Putin will try to achieve in peace talks what he couldn’t in Ukraine war — weaken the US

February 26
A damaged apartment building is seen after a Russian guided aircraft bomb attack in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)

US strikes a deal with Ukraine that includes access to its rare earth minerals, officials say

February 26
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, European leaders attending the ceremony at the memorial to the fallen Ukrainian soldiers on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Western leaders visit Kyiv and pledge military support against Russia on the war’s third anniversary

February 24
US Ambassador Dorothy Camille Shea votes in the UN Security Council, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

US refuses to blame Russia for Ukraine war, splitting with European allies in UN votes

February 25
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answers media questions during his press conference, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US pressures Ukraine to nix its UN resolution demanding Russian forces withdraw

February 24
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answers media questions during his press conference, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Zelenskyy says progress made on reaching an agreement with the US on rare minerals deal

February 24

Ukrainian soldiers who returned to the battlefield after amputation

February 23
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)

Ukrainian soldiers are returning to battle after losing arms and legs, vowing to continue the fight

February 23
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Preparations are underway for a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Putin, Russia says

February 22
A woman and child peer out of the window of a bus as they leave Sievierodonetsk, the Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

First day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captured in images

February 22
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, third left, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, left, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, second right, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday Feb. 18, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

US offers UN resolution on war in Ukraine that’s far short of rival European statement

February 22
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US envoy praises Zelenskyy after Trump’s censure of the Ukrainian leader

February 22
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arrives for talks with Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb.15, 2025. (Sven Hoppe/DPA via AP, Pool)

Trump’s attempts to denigrate Zelenskyy have led to a surge in Ukrainian unity

February 21
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A news conference between Zelenskyy and Trump’s Ukraine envoy is canceled as tension rise

February 21
Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022. The yearlong war in Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides, disrupted energy and food supplies, and reduced whole cities to ruins. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Russia seems to have time on its side as the war in Ukraine reaches its third year

February 20
Police workers observe the body of a man killed after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Zelenskyy’s adviser says US gave up its lead role on resolving war in Ukraine, strengthening Russia

February 19
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump and Zelenskyy trade barbs as US-Ukraine relations sour over the war with Russia

February 20
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, third left, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, left, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, second right, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday Feb. 18, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift

February 18
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?

February 24
Ukrainian servicemen of Bugskiy Gard unit prepare mortar shells at frontline positions in Kherson region, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

1,000 days of war in Ukraine, distilled in a single 24-hour span of violence and resilience

November 19, 2024
FILE - Sweden's Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin presents the new version of the booklet "If Crisis or War Comes" in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP, File)

NATO’s newest members update their civil preparedness guides for risk of war

November 18, 2024
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Nov. 15, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korean leader calls for expanding his nuclear forces in the face of alleged US threats

November 18, 2024
President Joe Biden, right, listens as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, speaks during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied longer range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia

November 18, 2024
Yulia Navalnaya, center, with Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, center left, and Ilya Yashin, center right, lead a demonstration under the slogan "Stop Putin! Stop the War! Freedom for Political Prisoners!" in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Putin critics lead a march in Berlin calling for democracy in Russia and an end to war in Ukraine

November 17, 2024
FILE - Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard answers a question during a campaign event, Sept. 14, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Gabbard’s sympathetic views toward Russia cause alarm as Trump’s pick to lead intelligence services

November 17, 2024
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack in Poltava region Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Russia launches one of its fiercest missile and drone attacks at Ukraine’s infrastructure

November 18, 2024
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