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The top AP photos from Ukraine in 2025 show its grief and grit in another year of war

The Associated Press photo essay documents Ukraine’s ongoing 2025 conflict, showing resilience amid violence, with images from Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, and front lines across the country.

  • On Monday, the Associated Press published a photo essay credited to Evgeniy Maloletka and Efrem Lukatsky assembling the agency’s most powerful images showing Ukraine’s violence and resilience in 2025.
  • The essay seeks to document images captured in cities, villages, front lines and shelters across Ukraine in 2025, showing how mourning and persistence coexist amid death-filled front lines and damaged infrastructure.
  • Survivors were shown leaving bombed buildings, dust-covered and dazed amid rubble and a children’s playground; a veteran with prosthetic limbs grips a rifle during drills as young people attend a Halloween party.
  • Photographers captured grieving families at funerals, including mothers weeping over coffins for Danylo Nikittskyi, 15, and Alina Kutsenko, 15, at the April 7, 2025 ceremony.
  • Scenes on front lines and training grounds show soldiers resting in freezing trenches while Ukraine’s forces struck deeper into Russia and held back waves of attacks.
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Triinu Perve, a volunteer who has been dividing her time between Estonia and Ukraine since the summer of 2023, stated that there is no time in Ukraine to mourn someone for a long time right now, because people are always busy. According to her, people are anxiously awaiting the time when they will finally be able to let go of all their grief, because the losses have been great.

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The top AP photos from Ukraine in 2025 show its grief and grit in another year of war

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Associated Press’ most powerful images from Ukraine in 2025 show a nation defined by both unending violence and determined survival.

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