Skovorodynivka, Ukraine. February, 2026. 📷 by Ivan Samoilov for @en.afp.com

Odesa, Ukraine. February, 2026. 📷 by Oleksandr Gimanov for @en.afp.com

"In Kherson, a city of broad tree-lined boulevards and stately czarist-era mansions, residents fear the open sky." A very good read from Andrew Kramer of @nytimes.com with pictures from Mauricio Lima.

A source in the Ukrainian presidency told @en.afp.com that negotiators were engaging with talks despite the belief that Moscow wants to fight. The hope is that Trump will see that Russia is the obstacle to peace, lose patience with Putin, and then "we will get more weapons", the source said.

Kyiv, Ukraine. January, 2026 📷by Sergei Gapon for @en.afp.com

"No conflict shoddily mediated by fixers and compromised officials operating outside formal channels will produce a well-structured peace."

on.ft.com/4p8yTSG Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker

Lviv, Ukraine. October, 2025. 📸 by Yuriy Dyachyshyn for @afp.com

MOSCOW (AFP): Kremlin says Russia-Ukraine peace talks on 'pause'

Kyiv, Ukraine. August, 2025 📸by Genya Savilov for @afp.com

Kharkiv, Ukraine. August, 2024 📸 by Ivan Samoilov for @en.afp.com

Why Putin Thinks Russia Has the Upper Hand www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Privately, many Ukrainian soldiers repeat a bitter refrain: “Big Soviet army beats little Soviet army.”

“Vasyl, do you have hope?” The soldier laughed. “No,” he replied.

Devastating

AFP says its journalists are starving to death in Gaza

“It’s extremely difficult to deliver supplies, to rotate troops — to do anything, really.”

MEZHOVA, Ukraine. June, 2025 📸 by Tetiana Dzhafarova for @afp.com

“Why are the Koreans the ones storming? They are better prepared psychologically and they are better prepared physically. In Kursk, they completed their mission.” Great read from @janelytv.bsky.social, Dasl Yoon and Alistair MacDonald @wsj.com

Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. April, 2025 📸 by Andriy Andriyenko of Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade, distributed by @afpfr.bsky.social

@afpnews.bsky.social KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Ukrainian troops had captured two Chinese citizens fighting alongside Russian forces, adding that Kyiv would demand an explanation from Beijing and a reaction from its allies.

Russia’s killing of nine children in a missile strike has brought into focus the failure of President Trump to fulfill his campaign pledge of a swift end to the war. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Looks like this is the very crux of the controversy: "The independent jury judges entries anonymously – without names of photographers or outlets they work for. The principle is that the jury is judging the entry, not the person or agency they work for." www.worldpressphoto.org/news/2025/st...

Mariinka, Ukraine. April, 2025. 📸 stringer for @afpnews.bsky.social

As Ukraine's seven-month-long incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast came to what appears to be its end, Ukrainian soldiers and military experts are questioning the operation's goal and the long-term effect it will have on the war.

TUZ, Kyrgyzstan. March, 2025 📸 by Guliza Urustambek kyzy for @afpnews.bsky.social

#CentralAsia certainly still has a lot of problems to deal with, but this photo of the presidents of three once hostile countries grinning as border disputes are settled after three decades really sums up the mood of optimism this has generated www.gazeta.uz/ru/2025/03/3...

Four U.S. service members and their tracked vehicle went missing yesterday during exercises in Lithuania’s Pabrade training area, some 7 miles from the border with Belarus. www.rferl.org/amp/us-soldi...

#BREAKING Istanbul court orders arrest of AFP photographer after protests coverage: lawyer

This a great story by Ian and Nikita @wsj.com that details the arbitrary detention of one Ukrainian woman's family by Russian forces and the lengths she goes to to free them, at great personal risk. And it reveals an important truth about Russia, about the power of money and corruption.

Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk have lost ground in recent days but are not encircled by Russian forces, contrary to recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to three U.S. and European officials www.reuters.com/world/europe...

NEW: Russian state-controlled channel RT has largely vanished from Western screens due to sanctions. But iStories found that RT is paying influencers who push pro-Russian narratives, deny Russian war crimes, and strive to make Westerners love — and move to — Russia www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

this is such a gorgeous listen -- what a spotlight on central asia and that club, as charles calls it, the soviet union.

KYIV, Ukraine. March, 2025 📷 by Roman Pilipey for @afpnews.bsky.social