HANNA ARHIROVA

Ukraine reporter

Arhirova is an Associated Press reporter covering Ukraine. She is based in Kyiv.

In this photo provided by Petro Andryuschenko, the adviser of the head of Mariupol city's administration, burning trolleybus is seen on the damp of hydroelectric power station after Russian attacks in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, March 22, 2024. Over 60 drones and almost 90 missiles of various types were fired that night, Ukrainian officials said. (Telegram Channel of Petro Andryuschenko, the adviser of the head of Mariupol city's administration via AP)

Russia attacks Ukrainian electrical power facilities, including major hydroelectric plant

Russia attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric plant, causing widespread outages and killing at least five people.

A firefighter gestures as he prepares to enter a building at the site after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Around 30 cruise and ballistic missiles were shot down over Kyiv on Thursday morning, said Serhii Popko, the head of Kyiv City Administration. The missiles were entering Kyiv simultaneously from various directions in a first missile attack on the capital in 44 days. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russia fires 31 missiles at Kyiv in the first attack in weeks as people scramble for cover in subway

Russia has fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the first weeks of the war.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services work at the scene of a Russian attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, March 15, 2024. A Russian missile strike on Odesa in southern Ukraine on Friday killed at least 14 people and injured 46 others, local officials said. A first missile struck houses and when emergency crews arrived at the scene a second missile landed, authorities said. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Photo)

Russian missiles kill at least 16 people in the latest strike on southern Ukraine’s Odesa

A Russian missile attack blasted homes in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, followed by a second missile that targeted first responders who arrived at the scene.

42-year-old Vyacheslav Ryabkov, an internally displaced person from Kozachi Laheri in the Kherson region of Ukraine, shows in Kolomyya on Feb. 13, 2024 the scars on his stomach caused by Russian soldiers who cut him with a knife. Russia has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Takeaways into AP investigation into Russian system to force its passports on occupied Ukraine

Russia has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship.

50-year-old Natalia Zhyvohliad, an internally displaced person from Nova Petrivka in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, is pictured with her children, daughter-in-law and grandson in their temporary modular house in Kolomyya, Ivano-Frankivsk region on Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Russia forces Ukrainians in occupied territories to take its passports – and fight in its army

Russia has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship.

Raney Aronson-Rath, from left, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Michelle Mizner, and Derl McCrudden accept the award for best documentary feature film for "20 Days in Mariupol" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Oscars international broadcast cuts ’20 Days in Mariupol’ win, sparking criticism in Ukraine

The shortened version of the international broadcast of the 96th Oscars has faced harsh criticism in Ukraine for omitting the segment announcing the documentary feature category, which went to Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol.”

FILE - Fighters of Russian Volunteer Corps stand atop on an APC during press conference not far from the Ukraine's border with Russia in Sumy region, Ukraine, on May 24, 2023. Fighters from Ukraine made an attempt to cross into the town of Tetkino, which lies right on the border, the governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Russia says it killed 234 fighters while thwarting an incursion from Ukraine

Russian officials say Ukrainian long-range drones have smashed into two oil facilities deep inside Russia.

Raney Aronson-Rath, from left, Mstyslav Chernov, and Michelle Mizner pose in the press room with the award for best documentary feature film for "20 Days in Mariupol" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Ukraine’s first Oscar is hailed as a reminder of war’s horrors as Russian drones strike buildings

Ukraine awoke to another day of war with Russia but also a bit of good news. A journalist had won the country’s first Oscar for a harrowing documentary on the first days of the war.

In this undated photo taken on the front-line, provided by Viktor Biliak, a Ukrainian infantryman with the 110th brigade, poses for a photo, in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. The loss of the city of Avdiivka in February 2024 marked the end of a long, exhausting defense for the Ukrainian military. One brigade had defended the same block of buildings for months without a break. Another unit had been in the city for nearly two years. (Viktor Biliak via AP)

How Ukraine lost Avdiivka to Russia

The loss of the city of Avdiivka last month marked the end of a long, exhausting defense for the Ukrainian military.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrives to take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden on Defender of the Fatherland Day, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Ukraine claims it downed another Russian early warning and control plane in a major blow to Moscow

Ukrainian forces have downed a Russian early warning and control aircraft in a major win for the country as it fights back persistent Russian attacks along the front line.

Iryna Reva, 59, waits for her son Vladyslav at her apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 9, 2024. Vladyslav Reva, 25, a Ukrainian soldier with the 72nd Mechanized Brigade went missing during fighting against Russian forces near Vuhlehirsk Power Station in the Donetsk region on July 24, 2022. Iryna's son-in-law, Oleksandr Dygalo, who served in the 95th brigade has also disappeared. He was last seen on March 12, 2023 in Donetsk region. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Thousands of Ukrainians live in agony and uncertainty as they search for their missing loved ones

The latest figures from the National Police show that more than 30,000 people have been reported missing in Ukraine during two years of war.

Flowers and toys lie on the ground at a makeshift memorial commemorating victims of a Dec. 30 missile attack by Ukraine in Belgorod, Russia, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Belgorod has come under repeated Ukrainian shelling, and hundreds of bus stops in the city near the border with Ukraine have been reinforced with blocks of concrete and sandbags to protect them from rocket strikes. (AP Photo/Kirill Zarubin)

Russia’s forces turn their focus on Ukraine’s northeast in what may be an ambitious new push

An official says Russian forces are probing Ukrainian defenses for weak points in the country’s northeast.

Kateryna Dmytryk, left, and husband Artem Dmytryk hold their son, Timur, after Artem was released from Russian captivity as a part of a prisoner swap in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

For many Ukrainians, life is split in two: Before and after the war. This is one family’s story

As Russia launched its war in Ukraine two years ago, the lives of millions of Ukrainians were irreversibly changed.

A Ukrainian soldier launches a drone attack against Russians APC on the frontline near Klishchiivka the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 19, 2024. (Iryna Rybakova via AP)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says foreign aid delays are making life ‘very difficult’ on the front line

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says delays in weapons deliveries from Western allies are opening a door for Russian battlefield advances.

Yevheniia Synelnyk, whose brother has been in captivity for over a year and a half, stands in park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Synelnyk is also a representative of the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families, which was created in June of 2022, shortly after around 2,500 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered to Russia on the orders of the Ukrainian president during the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in May. According to the association, around 1,500 people remain captive. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

Ukrainians worry after plane crash that POW exchanges with Russia will end

Russia and Ukraine keep trading accusations over the crash of a Russian plane that Moscow said was carrying Ukrainian POWs, but one thing is clear: Many Ukrainians whose relatives are imprisoned in Russia are afraid this could mark the end of prisoner exchanges.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands next to Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab, top right, in front of the media during the 54th annual meeting of the WEF in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Ukraine needs money from the US and Europe to keep its economy running. Will the aid come?

Ukraine has won praise for stabilizing its economy under dire circumstances. Donor aid bolstered government’s finances and helped push inflation down for ordinary people, even as Russia’s invasion chopped off a third of the economy.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, hugs Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after signing documents in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

British prime minister visits Ukraine to give aid and reassurances of West’s support against Russia

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has unveiled new military funding for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv aimed at reassuring the country that the West is still providing support nearly 23 months after Russia’s invasion.

A priest pays his respects at a coffin of Ukrainian serviceman and famous Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in a battle with the Russian troops, during the funeral ceremony in St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Hundreds gather in Ukraine’s capital to honor renowned poet who was also a soldier killed in action

Hundreds of people have attended a ceremony honoring the memory of renowned Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in action while serving as a soldier in the war Russia started in Ukraine nearly two years ago.

Serhii Slobodiannyk, 63, stands inside of his apartment that was damaged as a result of Russia's attack on Jan. 2 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. "Everything I worked for over 30 years was destroyed in less than a second," he says. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

As a missile hits a Kyiv apartment building, survivors lose a lifetime’s possessions in seconds

Residents of a Kyiv apartment building are salvaging what they can a day after a Russian missile attack set it ablaze, tore off parts of its facade, and gouged a crater next to it.

A firefighter carries a man from a damaged residential building after a Russian missile strike, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Russian ballistic missiles strike Ukraine’s largest cities and kill at least 4 people

Officials in Ukraine say the country’s two largest cities were struck by Russian missiles that killed five people and wounded at least 130.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a damaged apartment building after a Russian attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Artem Perfilov)

Russia launches the biggest aerial barrage of the war and kills 30 civilians, Ukraine says

Officials say Russia has launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones against Ukrainian targets, killing at least 30 civilians in what an air force official calls the biggest aerial barrage of the war.

In this photo provided by Ukraine's Border Guard Service, a Panama-flagged civilian cargo vessel is seen in Odesa region Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. The vessel hit a Russian mine resulting in two injured sailors, said Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces on Thursday. The vessel was supposed to arrive to one of Danube ports to load the grain. (Ukraine's Border Guard Service via AP Photo)

A cargo ship picking up Ukrainian grain hits a Russian floating mine in the Black Sea, officials say

Officials say a civilian cargo ship has struck a Russian mine in the Black Sea near Ukraine’s Danube ports, injuring two sailors.

Ukrainian servicemen carry the coffin of their comrade Vasyl Boichuk who was killed in Mykolayiv in March 2022, during his funeral ceremony at the cemetery in Iltsi village, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A Russian drone and artillery attack kills 6 in Ukraine and knocks out power in a major city

Russia has fired almost 50 Shahed drones at targets in Ukraine and shelled a train station where more than 100 civilians were gathered to evacuate.

A Ukraine Special Operations Forces officer talks on the radio while navigating the Dnipro River during a night mission in Kherson region, in Kherson, Ukraine, Sunday, June 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukraine damages a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea after battlefield disappointments

Ukrainian warplanes damaged a Russian ship moored in the Black Sea off Crimea, both countries say. The attack bolsters Ukrainian morale after battlefield disappointments, and doubts about the future of Western aid.

Dr. Alexis Cholas, left, examines the amputated limbs of Ukrainian soldier Volodymyr Symyshyn at the hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Twenty-six-year-old Cholas lost his arm when, as part of a team of combat medics, he was evacuating the wounded, and the vehicle was involved in a traffic accident in eastern part of the country. This happened about a year ago, and four months after the injury, he received a bionic arm from Esper Bionics. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The war took away their limbs. Now bionic prostheses empower wounded Ukrainian soldiers

Russia’s war on Ukraine has created a massive need for prosthetic limbs. An estimated 20,000 Ukrainians had amputations since the war started in February 2022, many of them soldiers who lost arms or legs due to blast wounds.

People stand near a crater in the yard of a damaged multi-store building after a Russian attack at residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A Russian missile attack on Kyiv wounds at least 53 as Ukraine pleads for more European support

A barrage of Russian missiles has targeted Kyiv and wounded at least 53 people as Ukraine’s president seeks more military support in Europe.

Women carry their luggage after taking a bus ride after crossing the border with Russia in the Sumy region of Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. An average of 80-120 people return daily to Ukraine from territories held by Russia through an unofficial crossing point between the two countries amid a brutal war. Most choose this challenging path, even in freezing temperatures, to escape Russian occupation and reunite with their relatives in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

People flee through dangerous conditions as they escape a grim life in Russia-controlled Ukraine

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of people have fled occupied regions of the country over myriad routes.

Ukrainian truck drivers wait to cross from Poland back into Ukraine in Korczowa, Poland, on Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. Ukrainian charities and companies supplying the country’s military warn that problems are growing as Polish truck drivers show no sign of ending a monthlong border blockade. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)

Polish truck drivers are blocking the border with Ukraine. It’s hurting on the battlefield

Ukrainian charities and companies supplying the country’s military warn that problems are growing as Polish truck drivers show no sign of ending a monthlong border blockade.

Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot of the Netherlands, left, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba attend a joint news conference following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Dutch government pledges nearly $2.7 billion for Ukraine in 2024 as war drags into another winter

The Dutch government says it has allocated 2.5 billion euros to support Ukraine in 2024. Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot announced it during a visit to Ukraine.

In this photo provided by the Ihor Moroz, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, rescuers work at the scene of a building damaged by shelling, in Novogrodivka, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (Ihor Moroz, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration via AP)

Ukrainian spy agency stages train explosions on a Russian railroad in Siberia, Ukrainian media say

Ukrainian media are reporting that the country’s spy agency staged two successive train explosions on a railroad line in Siberia that serves as a key conduit for trade between Russia and China.