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

Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike which destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov, File)

Servicemen carry a portrait of volunteer soldier Volodymyr Rakov, 30, a well known dancer and choreographer, who was killed during the Russia Ukraine war, during the farewell ceremony at St.Michael Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Young women dressed in traditional Ukrainian clothing dance in circle during a traditional midsummer celebration in Pyrohiv, Ukraine, outside of Kyiv, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Local people react after a residential building was destroyed by a Russian air strike in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov, File)

Ukrainian servicemen of the 148th artillery brigade rest in a trench after firing towards Russian positions at the frontline’s Velyka Novosilka direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

A dead body lies on the ground after a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Volodymyr Hordiienko, File)

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential house destroyed by a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)

Residents react after a Russian missile hit an apartment building during Russia’s combined missile and drone air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Funeral workers carry the coffin of Olena Kohut, an orchestra musician who was killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy on April 13, during a farewell ceremony in Sumy, Ukraine, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

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, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Cadets greet each other at the Lanzheron beach in Odesa, Ukraine, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian soldiers of the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion train not far from the frontline on Pokrovsk direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Police officers help an injured woman leave her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

A woman cries during a funeral ceremony for Tamara Martyniuk, 8, Stanislav Martyniuk, 12, and Roman Martyniuk, 17, killed in a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Artem aka “Lisnyk”, a Ukrainian soldier of the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion who was injured during fighting with Russian forces at the front line smokes a cigarette on Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

A woman hugs a soldier who came back from Russian captivity while people show photos of missing soldiers during an exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to journalists during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

An elderly woman leaves her damaged home after a missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)

Ukrainian soldier Denys Zalizko, 21, stands outside of a rehabilitation center in Kyiv region, Ukraine, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Sofia Sisa, 17, does homework in an underground shelter during an air raid alarm in Shostka, Ukraine, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Police officers calm an injured dog while a dead body lies near a multi-story building damaged by a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)

A girl touches the water at Lanzheron beach in Odesa, Ukraine, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian war veteran Pavlo Tovstyk rests during a training for a 6.5km swimming race across the Bosporus Strait, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Mourners say their last goodbyes to 12 Ukrainian soldiers who died in Russian captivity during a funeral ceremony in central Lviv, Ukraine, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys, File)

Red Cross volunteers evacuate an injured person from a multi-storey residential house destroyed by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

A woman in costume attends a Halloween rave in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Cadets listen to their teacher as they sit in a bomb shelter on the first day at school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Mykhailo Maistruk, 67, walks downstairs during an evacuation from Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

A Ukrainian serviceman with the Safari Unit of the Liut Brigade launches a reconnaissance drone at the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko, File)